Thank you for praying!

We are thanking and praising the Lord the pathology reports came back with the lymph nodes showing no cancer!  The surgeon said the lump was small at 7mm.  The pathology reports did show that the lump has non-invasive cancer cells in the margin of tissue around it so I am tentatively scheduled (waiting for an exact time) for next Friday, April 3, to have additional surgery to remove the remaining cancer.  The surgeon said this surgery won’t require general anesthetic; all I care is that I don’t feel it :o).  Before this next surgery we will be meeting with the surgeon on Monday, March 30, for a follow-up appointment to discuss treatment and to get scheduled with a medical oncologist.  I am assuming that the medical oncologist will be the one to dictate the radiation schedule but we will see.

There is much to be thankful for!  I am so thankful that the Lord cares for me!  He knew that we would be facing this cancer and He has been preparing each step we have walked before the diagnosis and now as we walk through it.  We are thankful that He is in control and He knows what is best at this time.  The prognosis could be dim but the Lord has allowed it to be brighter than we feared.  Our desire is to allow His light to shine through us during this time, so that He will receive all the glory and others will come to know Him. 

Thank you for supporting us in prayer! 

Romans 8:35-39

35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36 As it is written: "For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered." 37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.