Scan Results

Metisha got her scan results back and they were not the results we were praying for. The cancer has gotten worse in her liver. The existing spots have gotten bigger and there are also new spots. However we are thankful that there are no signs of cancer in areas other than the liver.

Metisha’s oncologist is consulting with MDAnderson and a treatment facility in Dallas that uses glass beads to target chemo directly in tumors then she will meet with the oncologist next Wednesday to determine what the next steps should be.

This is hard to take. It is hard to not feel like we are losing ground to cancer. We are sad, angry and scared amid a hundred other emotions. But we MUST remain hopeful, believing that cancer can be beaten, her liver can be restored to a cancer free state and she will be with us for decades and decades to come. We cannot give up and we cannot stop believing that God will provide total physical healing for Metisha in this life. We cannot give up.

We continue to need your prayers. It can be so hard to voice our needs and requests to God during these times and so we depend on you to stand next to us in prayer. We are praying for:

• Strength and a renewed hope from God.
• An unfaltering belief that God will give Metisha physical healing in this life.
• Wisdom for the doctors as they look at the next options.
• The next option to be the treatment that will cure Metisha.
• The next steps to happen quickly. Next Wednesday feels like 9 months, not 9 days away.
• Metisha’s hands and feet to heal quickly from the oral chemo.
• For Metisha and Mark and their families to be given peace and joy through this time. We want to enjoy life together without the dark cloud of cancer looming over.
• Metisha to be physically healed, here on earth, 100% and forever from cancer in 2010.

We are thankful for you, your love and your prayers. Metisha is strong, she is a fighter, she is my hero.

Lamentations 3:55-57
I called out your name, O God,
Called from the bottom of the pit.
You listened when I called out, ‘Don’t shut your ears!
Get me out of here! Save me!’
You came close when I called out.
You said, ‘It’s going to be all right’.