Does anyone smell burnt liver?

I can not help but feel I smell like over cooked meat today? Eeewww! Anyone who likes that smell is welcome to come by, but I warn you that I am not looking my best today. I feel like an old lady walking hunched over with my oh so cute chemo curl bed head hair do. Mom would be so proud:) On the upside, I am really enjoying my "nurse." Why don't they make "nurse's" outfits for men?

I wanted to thank you all for you prayers these past couple days. I am amazed again by the power of prayer and I am so grateful God answers. Please continue to pray that I will be 100% cancer free. I would also like to ask that you join me in praying that I would be led to whatever it is God wants me to do with my experience. I just hope I don't end up in Africa living in a grass hut:)

God bless all of you and again know that I pray for you too!
Love,
Metisha

Out of Surgery

Metisha is out of surgery but Mark has not gotten to see her yet. The doctors said it went well and they feel confident. They used a bigger probe than they used last time.

Praise God that the surgery went well! Pray that it was successful and there is no remaining cancer. Pray that the recovery will be quick and easy.

Good News!

Metisha received the results of the PET scan today and they showed that the only spot is on the liver. While we would have been thrilled with a cancer free scan, this is very good news! The doctors feel confident they can get this spot with another liver procedure which will happen this Friday.

Thanks so much to everyone who prayed with us! God continues to teach us lessons through cancer and we continue to learn to trust him and to choose his peace.

Pray for the liver procedure on Friday. Pray that it will be 100% effective and pain free. Pray that this is Metisha’s last battle with cancer and she lives a long healthy life. Pray that her story will continue to positively impact people.

Oh, and for another VERY exciting update: her hair has gotten long enough to pull some of it back into a ponytail!

Waiting, waiting, and....waiting.

Metisha writes:
Well, I survived another day of being shoved in a huge coffin like tube and I truly believe I should glow in the freegin dark by now with all of the radioactive meds I have had put into my body! I also think that if there is a nuclear explosion that I will survive because nuclear medicine does not faze me. I am RADIOACTIVE GIRL! ...and I am sad to say that my drink of choice these days is barium. Yum! Berry flavor is Great!
I am so grateful for all of your prayers today. As I was laying in the scan tube, I was praying that God would allow my scans to come back clear or at least with just the one cancer spot on my liver. You would think that I would be praying for a calming of my nerves from being in the tube, but I REALLY like it now. Did you know you can nap in there? The only problem with that is I snored and woke myself up which caused me to jerk. STAY STILL! I think I might change my bed into a tube with banging noises and lasers. Apparently they lull me right to sleep.
I was given the impression while there today that no matter what the results were God is with me. I am beginning to have the feelings that God is preparing me for more. So, I am asking for your prayers of peace and faith and trust in God's plan for me and my family. I can't do it without all of you supporting me in prayer, so help me pray for a miracle again! Our God is an awesome God and He is a God who saves! So, now we wait. Again! Whoever prayed for me to have patience...THANKS ALOT:0)! I hope all of you are blessed this weekend and know that I am praying for you too!

Love,
Metisha

Liver Procedure Scheduled

Metisha is scheduled to have the liver procedure done on September 26th to burn off the cancer. She will have a PET scan done before that on September 19th. Tisha is doing great and is very upbeat! We are praying that this is the only reoccurrence and that the PET scan will show there is no additional cancer. We are praying that she will once again be cancer free soon and will remain cancer free from that point on. Thanks for all of your prayer and support!

Second Round :(

Metisha received the results back from an MRI of her abdomen today and the cancer is back. The spot on her liver which they burned about a year ago now had cancer back around the edges. Mark and Metisha are taking the news better than the rest of us and are upbeat! Always joking, Metisha says thanks to everyone who was sad there were no updates on the blog because we have an update now ;)

The doctors said this area of the liver was hard to burn because it is by a large blood vessel but they are optimistic it can be treated with the same procedure. Right now, the plan is to do another a burn procedure and no chemo. She will have the procedure done as soon as possible. She will also have a PET scan on the 19th to see if the reoccurrence is only in her liver.

So it’s time to hit our knees in prayer again. We know Metisha is God’s miracle. We know he healed her once and can do it again. We know he is more powerful than cancer.

Pray that:
The cancer has only reoccurred in this one spot.
The burn procedure can be done quickly.
The burn procedure will be easy on her body. The last treatment was very painful.
He will maintain Metisha’s high spirits.
Our family will be able to give Mark and Metisha the support they need.
God will once again cure her of all cancer.

It’s raining today in Fort Worth, and if you know Metisha’s story, you know that God has given us rain as a sign of his healing in her life.