Updates...

So, mom's surgeon called her at home today - yeah, a surgeon personally called a patient...how's that for service (it makes up for some of their not-so-shining moments)? Lots of questions and answers from that conversation - lots still swimming in my head. But, good news...the doc can't wait to see mom in her office on Friday because she thinks mom sounds great as does her recovery. If all goes well, she will allow momma to return to work for 4 hours a day NEXT WEEK! This is only 2 weeks after her mastectomies! The docs are going to "scrutinize" (my word not theirs - how I understand it) the cancers that were removed from the mastectomies...one of the two cancers she had was a "bad momma-jomma" (again, me, not them - very aggressive cancer on a scale of 1 to 9 - 9 being most nasty -- hers was a 7)...so they are going to "scrutinize" that to see if it really was a "7" and this is supposed to reveal what sort of percentage rate exists on it popping up somewhere else or ever again...I'm so glad that I know my God who can take care of that! It's all a waiting game - wait for the post-op surgeon's appt, wait to try going back to work, wait to talk to the chemotherapist, wait on more reports, wait 3 months to watch the nodule in her lung...wait, and wait, and wait...see a recurring theme???

Mom does - it is patience!

Ecclesiastes 7:8 The end of a matter is better than its beginning;

Patience of spirit is better than haughtiness of spirit.

Galatians 5:22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

Colossians 1:10-12
Then the way you live will always honor and please the Lord, and your lives will produce every kind of good fruit. All the while, you will grow as you learn to know God better and better.

We also pray that you will be strengthened with all his glorious power so you will have all the endurance and patience you need. May you be filled with joy, always thanking the Father. He has enabled you to share in the inheritance that belongs to his people, who live in the light.

Please continue in prayer that we "will be strengthened with all his glorious power so that we will have all the endurance and patience that we need. May we be filled with joy, always thanking the Father." Pray for all the waiting and testing. Pray that this cancer wasn't a "7." Pray that the nodule in the bottom of mom's right lung is nothing or ceases to exist. Pray. Amen.