Hoping for the Silver Lining

If you are like me you have been missing my wife on this blog. She has so much to share and always says it in such a way it draws you in. Unfortunately, she is in the middle of an 18 day ionized silver treatment that includes, oral silver, eye drops and all day IV treatments. The goal is to eradicate this bacterial enemy from her system. The company and physicians that developed it claim after the 18 days no bacterial spirochetes are able to survive. Let us pray they are accurate in their conclusion. Silver has been used for disinfecting and medical treatments for decades if not centuries. Hopefully through scientific advancements this new method will show grand success. This is also the start of Great Lent in the Orthodox Christian Church. It's a great time leading up to Holy Pascha (Easter) and Christ's victory over sin and death. We are hoping and praying for another victory as well this Holy season. It's been over five long years of wondering in the desert for Amber, dealing with a silent and hidden enemy that few understand. So much time alone in her thoughts and pain. As a husband it's been brutal not knowing what to do or how to help at times through all of this. So without going on and on about it all... we just hope. There is always hope and they can't take that away. None of us ask for such trials but that is not for us to decide. What is for us to decide is what we do with the time that is given us. (A paraphrase of one of my favorite quotes.) Thanks J.R.R. Tolkien