Posted in Just Our Day-to-Day Life

This time it was me who had to see the doctor, and I came away with an appointment to have several tests done, including a CT Scan.  I've had a pain in my lower left abdomen for a couple weeks that just feels like a gnawing ache most of the time, but sometimes is actually painful.  When the doctor pushed on it, it was most definitely painful!!!  OUCH!!!  

Please pray for me as I have this done at 2 tomorrow, and as I wait for the results.  Being surrounded by cancer all the time of course makes that my first thought, which I know is just plain stupid, but it is hard not to think that way.  Especially with my mom and her brother having had colon cancer.... 

As many of you know, I also have panic/anxiety disorder, and the thought of being closed in that CT Scan machine creeps me out, too.  That's as scary as worrying about what is wrong with me.  So I'd appreciate prayers about that, too. 

For those of you who are family and friends, I haven't told my dad about this, and I'd really just as soon he doesn't know.  He certainly doesn't need one more thing to worry about.  So pretty please don't tell anyone but the Lord about this if you live in my neck of the woods :-) 

Now, about Dad!!!!  The lung specialist we saw Tuesday called him today, supposedly to set up a PET Scan to see how far the new cancer has spread or if it is clearing up.  Instead, he said that they are finding no sign of cancer at all in the previous tests, and he sees absolutely no reason to have a PET Scan.  He believes that Dad is cancer free again!!!   He is to keep taking the Tarceva to prevent a recurrence, so we still need prayers that the bad rash that is a side effect of this drug will subside and give him some relief, but it looks like the cancer is under control again.  Do you know how good that was to hear???  Rarely does a recurrence clear up!  So either there was not a recurrence at all, and it was only an infection known as BOOPS (Bronchioli Originating Obliterative Pneumonitis) which sometimes is chronic after radiation for lung cancer.  How it affected the other lung, I'm not sure, but I am so happy about this.  Or it really was a recurrence, and the chemo pill has gotten rid of it!  Either way, it is a Praise the Lord situation.  Now we need to concentrate on keeping his heart condition under control. 

Now, if we can only find out some good news about me in a few days.  They won't be able to call me with the results until probably sometime Tuesday due to the holiday weekend.  I will start a new habit of biting my nails before then!!!