Until Forever Page #3

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- Okay, fine, I wished

that on our next date

maybe we could have seafood?

- Are you, really, that's what,

you had a wish on a shooting star

passing through our magical galaxy

and you waste it on seafood?

- Okay, I'm sorry, barbecue

gets a little bit old.

- I hate seafood.

- I love it.

- Fine.

Ms. Larson, on our next date,

I will take you to get seafood.

- Thank you.

Ah, no, I don't want to

get your germs, Mr. Germy.

- Mr. Germy?

- Well, you're gonna have to catch me.

- Hey, you're leavin' the sandwiches.

- I'm sorry.

- Hey, stop.

- [Michelle] I don't

like barbecue.

- [Michael] Michelle!

- [Doctor] Acute Myelogenous Leukemia,

it's a cancer of the

blood and bone marrow.

Normally, we see this in older patients,

usually around 60 or so,

but sometimes in people

your age, and even younger.

In AML, the bone marrow

makes abnormal blood cells

that don't form properly

and can't fight infection.

These leukemia cells then crowd

out the normal blood cells

that your body needs.

AML can be very aggressive, so we need to

get chemotherapy treatment

started as soon as possible.

That okay?

(dramatic music)

- Yeah.

- [Doctor] I promise you we will get

the best treatment plan

possible for Michael.

He's young, he can fight this.

- You okay?

- Uh, yeah, dude, I need to, um,

I need to take my pills.

(door shuts)

- So, uh, what's our next step, then?

- Go home, pack your bags.

You'll be staying here for

the duration of the treatment.

- He has to stay here the entire time?

- The chemotherapy treatment will make

his immune system virtually non-existent.

He'll be really vulnerable to infection.

- Well, I have been wanting my own place.

(somber piano music)

- Hello, I'm nurse Katie,

nice to meet you,

just follow me to your room.

(door clicks open)

(somber piano music)

(inaudible dialogue)

(somber piano music)

- I'd like us all to take a moment

to say a prayer for a young

man in our congregation

going through a very challenging

and difficult time in his life.

Michael Boyum was recently diagnosed

with a very aggressive form of leukemia.

I was reminded of a verse

in Psalms, which reads,

"Many are the afflictions

of the righteous,

"but the Lord delivers

them out of them all."

And I was immediately struck

by the verse that followed,

which says, "He keeps all his bones,

"not one of them is broken."

This really struck a chord with me

and I shared it with Michael's family,

because it is in one's bones

where things go wrong when

a person has leukemia.

- [Doctor] You'll feel some pressure,

pressure, pressure, pressure.

- Thank you.

- They just stuck you with a big needle.

You don't need to say thank you.

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