Scan of Faith

Metisha’s pain has continued and is intense enough that she frequently admits she’s in pain. None of us can really understand what she faces every day, but I know she is amazingly strong to deal with the pain, exhaustion and random sleep patterns on a daily basis and maintain a fighting spirit. She is the most amazing person I know!


Metisha has a very high pain tolerance, but when the pain increases it’s hard to ignore the fear that the cancer may be spreading. So Metisaha spoke with her oncology team yesterday and they agreed it’s time to do a PET scan to see how the chemo has been affecting the cancer. They are trying to schedule the scan for this week. They do believe the pain may be from the chemo killing the cancer cells and hope the scan will prove the treatment is working. Her doctor is also going to send her scans to the radiologist who worked on her neck last time to see if they can do treatments on her spine to help relieve some of that pain.

I was blessed to be with Tisha last weekend. She told me she needs to focus on believing she will be healed because she feels like her faith in healing is what has kept her in such good health over the past four years. So pray with us that the PET scan will be a faith builder and show that God is working a healing miracle in Metisha.

Oh, and if you have some spare dollars, Metisha’s favorite sister-in-law Kaley is helping eRace breast cancer in the Komen Houston Race for the Cure. You can donate to Kaley’s race here. Go Kaley!

And because we all need a little humor in life, I will share a “Metisha Moment” to end this post. When we were in college/high school, Mom took us to Oklahoma City to go shopping. While we were driving to the city Mom kept complaining about a bad smell. Once my Mom gets a hold of a bad smell, there is no stopping until the source is discovered. Well it didn’t take much sniffing to determine the fowl smell was coming from Metisha’s sandals (apparently Payless Shoes “leather” isn’t so breathable). Metisha liked her sandals and they were fairly new so she wasn’t ready for a bad smell to cause a breakup so she made Mom stop at the first Target/WalMart and bought this new product called Febreze. She found the miracle product, soaked her sandals in the spray and happily reapplied them to her feet. Problem solved … for about 10 minutes. Then her feet started to burn, a lot. Apparently Febreze was intended for fabrics, not skin. And as I remember it, the Febreze didn’t kill the smell either! So the sandals ended up in the trash anyway and our next stop was Payless for new shoes.