Long couple days at Mayo, but finally on our way home with big smiles on our faces! All three of the tumors that have been growing in Mike’s lungs have shrunk, and one of them shrunk a whole centimeter...can I get an AMEN!?! They call this a “partial response”, but it is great news! They did not do a brain MRI this time, but we are believing that the small spot in there will be gone when they do one in the future. The CT scan did show what looked like a blood clot in a vein in Mike’s abdomen, so he had to have an ultrasound and it was determined to be just an “artifact” of the contrast dye they used for the CT scan.
As we drive the backroads home to Charles City, we were talking about how fear is so crippling (Mike’s heart rate was 103 bpm when the nurse checked it while waiting for the Dr./CT results and it’s usually in the 60’s) and even though we put our trust in the Lord, fear/doubt just sneaks in and you have to tell yourself to give it to God. We are listening to Zach Williams and his song Fear is a Liar came on and the words are so true and we need to remember them! The chorus:
Fear he is a liar
He will take your breath
Stop you in your steps
Fear is a liar
He will rob your rest
Steal your happiness
Cast your fear in the fire
Cause he is a liar
Thank you prayer posse, we can never tell you how much it means to us!
Just Breathe,
Paula
P.S. Mike is going to be bogging in the next few days
Thursday, October 10, 2019
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
Scans this week🙏🏼
We were scheduled to go to Rochester for a 6am PET scan this Thursday October 10th, but we got it switched to a CT scan, for a number of reasons, a CT is way shorter and easier on Mike, it is a lot less radiation than a PET, and a CT measures the exact size of the lung tumors better than a PET. We suggested a CT and Dr. Molina agreed that he would rather look at a CT instead to be able to determine how much the tumors have shrunk!!!🙏🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 Mike will also have blood drawn Thursday am and then meet Dr. Mansfield who is heading up the clinical trial of Blu-667 to get the bloodwork and CT results. We are believing that the tumors have gotten significantly smaller or disappeared, and would love extra prayers in believing this with us!
Our daughter Julia and her kids Finley and Bear visited from South Dakota over the weekend while her hubby attended a conference and Jackson came home as well so all the activity helped keep the “SCANXIETY” down. We do trust in God and his perfect timing and try not to think too much about the scans but we are human and a little bit of anxiety about scans is just something that comes with the territory.
There are so many great quotes from Erwin McManus’s book The Last Arrow but this one seems so appropriate: “What is your proof of life? What are you doing right now that proves to the world, or at least those in your world, that you are fully alive? I have found that life can be incredibly elusive because it exists just on the other side of existence. Most of us are not choosing between life and death; we are choosing between existence and death. We actually never choose to live. We are so afraid of death and it’s relatives, such as failure and disappointment and injury, that we actually never choose to live. For all of us, death comes to soon. It comes along before we’ve taken our final breaths. It’s only when we realize we are terminal that we start treating time with the respect it deserves.”
We are still works in progress and learning every day to treat time with the respect it deserves and to be truly alive! We are all terminal, nobody lives forever, and we are learning to make the most with the days we are given, with the people we love and who love us back. Thank you, in advance for your prayers!
Just Breathe,
Paula
Our daughter Julia and her kids Finley and Bear visited from South Dakota over the weekend while her hubby attended a conference and Jackson came home as well so all the activity helped keep the “SCANXIETY” down. We do trust in God and his perfect timing and try not to think too much about the scans but we are human and a little bit of anxiety about scans is just something that comes with the territory.
There are so many great quotes from Erwin McManus’s book The Last Arrow but this one seems so appropriate: “What is your proof of life? What are you doing right now that proves to the world, or at least those in your world, that you are fully alive? I have found that life can be incredibly elusive because it exists just on the other side of existence. Most of us are not choosing between life and death; we are choosing between existence and death. We actually never choose to live. We are so afraid of death and it’s relatives, such as failure and disappointment and injury, that we actually never choose to live. For all of us, death comes to soon. It comes along before we’ve taken our final breaths. It’s only when we realize we are terminal that we start treating time with the respect it deserves.”
We are still works in progress and learning every day to treat time with the respect it deserves and to be truly alive! We are all terminal, nobody lives forever, and we are learning to make the most with the days we are given, with the people we love and who love us back. Thank you, in advance for your prayers!
Just Breathe,
Paula
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