Still here!

Happy June!  It's been awhile, but I'm still alive.  The past few weeks have had a whole lot of ups and downs, but here's the latest medical scoop before I get into more fun things, like Jesus and radishes:

I received my blood work results from a few weeks ago.  Lyme is negative for the 8th time.  We're happy about that, because if I had 7 negative results and 1 positive, I'd be very confused.

They also tested for epstein barr (aka mono), not because they think I've had it this whole time, but because I've been exposed to some people with mono lately and I've also been more symptomatic lately, but that was negative, too.  That's also a "good" negative because having mono would just really complicate things at this point.

So, just two new negatives that we already had several negatives for.  Nothing to complain about there!

I see the urologist on the 12th, and that's a very good thing.  My bladder is wacko.

Anyways, that's enough medical stuff for now.  I've had a lot of hard days lately,  mainly because I've been getting really anxious about silly things.  I'm much better with the physical pain/discomfort than feeling like I'm going crazy. I tend to think that  I just need to work harder, pray more, or just, well... be better.  Whatever that means.  But, this verse keeps coming to my mind:

"But He said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.'  Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me."
- 2 Corinthians 12:9

The truth that I have to keep reminding myself is that I've got nothing to prove.  God has put me in this situation because He knows that it's the best way to use my life for His purposes.  God's still good.  Perfectly good.

... and His grace is sufficient for me.

Oh, and radishes.  My parents and I planted peas, radishes, 4 different types of tomatoes, beans, sunflowers and wildflowers during memorial day weekend, and we're going to plant a pumpkin patch when the weather gets warmer!  Here's what it looks like so far:

We have the peas and radishes in a raised bed, the sunflowers are next to the raised bed, the wildflowers are planted waaayy in the back of the garden, and most of it will be pumpkins!

The tomatoes are planted in the orange bags (one is missing, I know. It's still inside.)  The beans are in the blue bags!

And THIS, is what I saw when I went to go check on everything tonight... some little radishes popping out!