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savedbylove112 -> UPDATE on Mom (7/17/2008 1:24:02 PM)
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Thanks to you all for your faithful prayers for my Mom and those of you who took the time to make us aware of them and send your good wishes. Here's an update:
After other doctors looked at Mom's test results, they are hesitant to actually call what they see in her chest "cancer"--right now, they are leaving it at "a mass" that they can't identify. Right now, it's near her lung, and about the size of half-dollar. Because of its location and uncertain nature, the doctors gave Mom 3 options:
#1. Go in for a major surgery so they can access the mass and do a biopsy on it. This would leave Mom out of commission for about 6 weeks.
#2. Go in for an MRI, and some sore of insertion would take place to access the mass that way for the biopsy. This would leave Mom out of commission for about 2 weeks.
#3. Wait about 6-8 weeks to see if the mass grows, and then go back for a second test.
Mom went with "Door #3", as she put it. Right now, she feels fine (except for some occasional congested coughing and the constant weakness from her past therapy), and she loathes the idea of being incapacitated again.
Of course, we ask that you all continue to pray for her healing, that this mass would NOT grow, and that it would NOT be cancer. But I ask that you please keep Mom in prayer for her spirit to be encouraged and strengthened--she is so frustrated that she cannot be as active as she once was, and knowing her as I do, there is a good chance that if it IS cancer, she may say "to heck with it" and just let it run its course. I hope to God I'm wrong, but every time she thinks she's faced with more treatment, she gets exasperated and says "I can't go through that again." She has seen several friends fight cancer tooth and nail to the very end, and she's seen what the treatment did to them, and they died anyway, so she may be thinking "why should I suffer through another round of treatment if I'm just gonna die anyway?"
True, I'm not the Holy Spirit, and I don't know exactly what's in her heart and mind--only the LORD knows, and I pray to Him that I am wrong--believe me, I'd LOVE to be wrong! But sometimes, I don't know. Thanks again for your faithfulness, and God bless you all!
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