Short Update & Prayer Request

Proverbs 25:25 

Like cold water to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country. 

This week as we’ve been getting appointments in order for radiation at the end of this month, we got a little glimmer of good news from my chest CT! Two out of three lung spots are completely gone, and the third spot is unchanging (likely meaning it isn’t cancerous!) The chest CT also got us eyes on the singular liver spot that’s awaiting radiation, because it’s located at the base of my right lung it showed up on the imaging *say cheese* and it also “appeared unchanged”! Which is a huge praise because last summer I had one of my liver spots triple in size while we dealt with one spot. Cancer is similar to plants in this way – when you weed off a shoot, it’s able to redirect that energy to other “shoots”,  Spooky, huh?! Well, it’s not the case this time – Praise. The. Lord.  

This week has been hard, Waverly came down with a fever Saturday night and was sick all-day Sunday, and by Tuesday I got the bug but 3x worse than Wavey, and I’ve been sick in bed going on four days now! ugh. Jamison was down and out for a day, Braddock’s lungs sound like he’s got rocks in them but it’s not slowing him down at all, and Reegan looks to be getting off scott-free!  

It’s convenient I’m getting my turn being sick out of the way this week, because next week is when the radiation prep starts, and I have an appointment bright and early, 7am in Seattle to place the fiducials for radiation. For those (like myself prior to this season) who don’t know what the hay a fiducial is, here ya go:  

*Fiducial markers are tiny metal objects (about the size of a grain of rice). They help your doctor line up the beams of radiation to make sure your radiation therapy is delivered exactly the same way each time. This helps them to target your tumor and avoid your healthy tissue  

The doctor will go in with a 6” needle to place the gold bead markers for treatment, and we’ll have to stay in Seattle for two days to do follow-up imaging to make sure the beads are right where we want them surrounding the tumor. 

The week of Thanksgiving I have to go to Seattle again for maintenance treatment, and then the following week is five days of radiation! I would really love your prayers for my heart and mind, that I would be content with this plan, and with where God has me. It can be so hard to choose joy through all of this but It’s just that - A choice.  

There’s the short of it, thank you for following our story, thank you for reading and commenting, and most of all thank you for your prayers and support. It’s not lost on me that I am extremely blessed to still be alive, this August I will officially be in the 13% of stage IV colon cancer patients to make it to 5 years. And that, too, is God’s plan!