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Posts by Valerie Rose Chan:

01/02/2025

A Year-End Heartfelt Prayer of Gratitude and Trust

2024 was a year of trials, pain, and unimaginable challenges, yet it was also a year of witnessing God’s unwavering faithfulness. Through sickness and uncertainty, He granted strength in weakness, joy in hardship, and miracles beyond comprehension. This heartfelt prayer reflects gratitude for His provision, the blessings of family and friends, and the new mercies that come with each morning. As the journey continues into 2025, it is a call to deeper trust, surrender to His perfect will, and a renewed commitment to walk in faith, guided by His light and love.

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12/23/2024

Face-to-Face With Suffering: What Leukemia Taught Me About Pain and Purpose

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Battling leukemia for three years, I’ve faced pain that tested my body and spirit. This is my story of enduring suffering, finding strength in faith, and uncovering life’s deeper purpose through Christ.

11/28/2024

10 Reasons Why I’m Thankful For Cancer

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Over the past three years of battling cancer, I’ve seen Jesus show up in ways I never imagined. He has been with me in my darkest moments, reminding me that He is sovereign—always above and beyond my cancer. Because of Him, I’ve experienced lessons and blessings that I may never have known otherwise.
So today, on Thanksgiving Day, I want to share something close to my heart: 10 Reasons Why I’m Thankful for Cancer.

11/18/2024

When the Storm Clouds Gather: Leukemia Relapse After Second Transplant

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Heartbroken by leukemia relapse after second transplant, I’m holding onto faith and God’s light through the darkness. Join me on this journey of hope and resilience

07/20/2024

Prayer Request: Bone Marrow Aspiration

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QUICK HEALTH UPDATE! Tomorrow will be my 30th day of taking the Prednisone/Ponatinib/Asciminib combination. We are hoping that these medications have a synergistic effect in making each other more effective in stopping and killing the […]

03/27/2024

The LORD is my Keeper

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It has been quite some time since I’ve publicly updated my health condition. Journeying through a 2nd leukemia relapse caused a lot of tangled emotions that needed some quiet processing. I realized that my feelings were kept to the side while I was focused on fighting cancer. I had ignored thinking and feeling them because I focused on keeping myself “strong.” Not knowing that my inner life was crumbling and I was already losing hope.

11/30/2023

Prayer Request: Rituximab Targeted Immunotherapy

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Let’s go! Felt very at peace as my attending doctor and his group of fellow doctors explained and answered all my questions. I believe that the Lord has guided each one of them in devising […]

11/28/2023

Transplant Anniversary: 43.69% Positive for Leukemic Blasts

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Last Sunday upon waking up, I received the bad news that my leukemia was still present. To hear such news is never pleasant. It always immediately feel like your life has been shattered. A sudden […]

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11/23/2023

Prayer Request: Bone Marrow Biopsy Result

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After getting 28 days of ponatinib/dexamethasone/venetoclax regimen. Today I had a Bone Marrow Aspiration done to get this tiny thing out so we can have a biopsy

10/19/2023

Second Relapse

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These leukemic blast cells are stubborn. They’re back again, and hunting me down. I was in Cebu for CCOWEF young pro camp, when all of the symptoms happened again on the first day of camp. […]