The Journey Begins
I have often thought keeping a blog would be fun but never thought I had much of anything to blog. I still don't know if this will be interesting at all. However, when we learned that I might be facing a cancer diagnosis, a friend suggested I start a blog to make it easier to keep friends and family informed. After vetoing all of Chip's 'hilarious' suggestions, I decided just to keep the name simple. Hence The Journey begins....
To give some background: In mid October ultrasounds ordered by my primary doctor showed an 8.9 cm mass on my right ovary and two enlarged lymph nodes in my neck. I was sent to a gynecologic oncologist for further testing. After biopsies, PET /CT scans, a colonoscopy (scanning the colon,etc.), and an endoscopy (scanning the esophagus/stomach,etc.), I am facing a full hysterectomy and exploratory laparotomy on Wednesday, December 3rd at noon. The lymph nodes biopsied tested positive for cancer- to be exact - metastatic poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma with gynecologic primary. Basically, the oncologist thinks it is ovarian cancer that has spread to my neck. There is a slight chance that it could be peritoneal cancer, but we will know at the end of surgery.
The day I learned of the ultrasounds, I went into my closet to pray. My two prayer requests that day were: 1) that God would be glorified through whatever was happening and 2) that he would keep my family's faith strong and draw others to Him through us. I guess that is actually three requests, but who's counting. :)That prayer time in the closet happened almost a month and a half ago. Emotions have run the gamut since then because I am weak, and I am human. But the prayer remains the same. And the reason has never been clearer than in the following song my sweet husband sent me today. Regardless of my tomorrow, my next week, my next year, or my next 20 years, He keeps me, He loves me, He is good.
Click on the link below and bask.
