Some Doctors Say Stupid Things

I'm just sitting here thinking about a few of the stupid, thoughtless things some doctors have told me over the past twenty-five years of surviving multiple cancer reoccurences. Unfortunately, some of their thoughtless words fell like an avalanche all over my psyche, crushing me....like the time a doctor asked me if I wanted my "children to grow up without a mommy?" or "if it came back three times, you know it's going to come back again!" Arggghhhhh!!!! During the coma I was in several years ago, one doctor told my husband that "he couldn't paint a rosy picture of your wifes future."

Let's put it in perspective. Growing up I was taught that the words of a doctor were etched in stone...or were written in gold....but throughout the years I have learned that doctors are just men...hopefully intelligent enough to pass medical school, but not necessarily gifted in the art of healing. There are doctors who are not hopeful, are not energized and lack the spiritualy compass to encourage their patients with faith and hope. And truly, they do not know what our futures hold.

The only one who does know our future is the Lord God. Truly. Thankfully, He is the one who numbers our days and holds our futures, not a doctors mindless words or opinion. I love this scripture in Jeremiah 29:11 "For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope."

I so wish the doctor who told my husband that he couldn't "paint a rosy picture" of my life could have seen me snorkeling off of the islands of Lanai and Molokini in Hawaii several months after I woke up from that coma! I was frolicking in the deepest blue ocean with my family and dearest friends; feeling like the whole world was inside of me! It was incredible.

If a doctor has put negative, hurtful words in your mind, blow them off and remind yourself that God knows your future.

Let us be reminded that our futures are in the Lords's hands, not in any doctors words, or hospital reports.

Mary