Isolation and Revelation

Treatment Summary:
So I guess to summarize the treatment experience: you swallow a radioactive pill like any other and within 10 seconds you're emitting more radiation off than would be safe to be in the public X 4-5 depending on your dosage. Everything I have learned to this point I again say depends on your doctor. The extreme 14 days was specific to be away from MY small children so that I did not damage their developing thyroid glands. After 3 days in the hospital you are safe to be in public 3-4 ft from people and avoid pregnant women at all cost. You can pass them just skip an isle in the store if you see them, just to be safer. Weird experience to be quite honest one of  inconvenience. Inconvenient because I have very small children who would not understand, "Mommy can't pick you up. You can't be by my neck." Full separation of environments was for them to be sure that mommy did not expose them to anything their little bodies would be damaged by. Please refer the LAST blog...not really inconvenient...we will say "Divine appointment."
Other than general stomach upset, bouts of welcomed diarrhea (speeds the exit---sorry to be blunt), very sore throat, swelling/ tenderness to salivary glands, loss of appetite and some taste; the treatment was no big deal. The more you can drink the better off you are because that assures that the collection of unabsorbed radioactive iodine isn't camping out in the bladder or bowel and getting out faster....no time to hurt the surrounding tissue! I drank tons, sucked on hard candy, worked out, sat outside to sweat it out (once I was home) and took 2-3 showers a day. After the iodine diet, my stomach sort of rejected normal food again so everything has upset it but like I said---at least it isn't camping out in there! I got bronchitis the night before I went in so time in isolation was welcomed to rest and cough and cough and cough. Made breathing a little harder just because my throat was swollen and sore from the treatment but again....time to rest and recover was doubly welcome.
So I read, wrote and at nights mommy would cry. Nights were very hard. When babies are winding down, getting baths, reading stories, saying prayers....momma was gone. Jody said they asked every night....where's momma? Is she sick....no baby....she's making sure her neck is really better. She loves you...she misses you TONS....she will be home soon!
As you may have read....God was good to return me home at day 9 after a perfect Geiger reading of ZERO...meaning no radiation was coming off my neck area or body and I could be around the kids! God was faithful to surprise me with that!!

Hospital Nights:
 God was faithful day and night. At night I would get a second wind. To read more of the Bible or just write. I stuck mostly to Revelation in the hospital and find that funny. (Many others after I got out!)  I knew I had 3 days and had never read the whole thing in a sitting and definitely could not say I understood it. Ch 2-3 to the churches were interesting. Sort of you are doing good, BUT not THAT good and keep up the work. Always ending to each with encouragement that doing good comes with its reward.
 I found parts fascinating and profound: the 2 witnesses- Ch 11 (WOW!), 7 Plagues in Ch 15, 7 bowls of God's wrath Ch 16, The Woman- the prostitute in Ch 17, The Fall of Babylon in Ch 18, The New Jerusalem Ch 21.
Chapter 22 was great. Read that one before but really walked about from the book in its entirety differently after Rev 22: 10-13: Then he told me, "Do not seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, because the time is near. Let him who does wrong continue to do wrong; let him who is vile continue to be vile; let him who does right continue to do right; and let him who is holy continue to be holy."

 and lets not forget the end especially Rev 22: 18-19, 20: I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds anything to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book. And if anyone takes words away from this book of prophecy, God will take away from him his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.
v20: He who testifies to these things says, "Yes, I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.

 I mean this blog not as ANYTHING but to share and reflect on the 3 days of hospital isolation. It was an interesting book He guided me to and for that I was thankful for the time alone to go over with God alone, like I said.  It is a hard one but such a good one!! One I dare say, that I avoid because it is confusing and loaded and scary. But now not all that scary. It is in there for us to read too!
 The warnings to all the churches Ch 2-3 is very relevant to us everyday: we all need to shape up, we all need to do better and not forget that HE IS COMING. Now you OVERCOME! : look at these verses:
Rev 2: 7: He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, I will give the right  to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.

Rev 2: 11: He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. He who overcomes will not be hurt at all by the second death.

Rev 2:17: He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, I will give some of the hidden manna. I will also give him a white stone with a new name written on it, known only to him who receives it.

Rev 3: 3-6: Remember, therefore, what you have received and heard; obey it, and repent. But if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what time I will come to you.  Yet you have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their clothes. They will walk with me, dressed in white, for they are worthy. He who overcomes will, like them, be dressed in white. I will never blot out his name from the book of life, but will acknowledge his name before my Father and his angels. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

Rev 3:11-12: I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have so that no one will take your crown. Him who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never again will he leave it. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my God: and I will also write on him my new name.

Rev 3:20-22: Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me. To him who overcomes, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I overcame and sat down with my Father on his throne. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

All in all, I'm not commenting much because I am not trying to add to or take away from these words. Just found the warnings....the BOOK,  good and not scary. Just keep on keeping on! This is what will happen. One day He is coming! For that we look forward to and that we are so thankful for!

I will write more later on Day 4-9 in isolation. They too were very, very good! Funny that I got to go home on Day 9 because I actually didn't get to make it through all the books and Bible books I wanted to. But glad that I have my own studying lined out for a while! It is so nice to be lead by the Spirit. It is nice to close all the noise of other books and bible studies at times and just depend on His Word. It truly never fails! Sharper than any double-edged sword......