This is an interesting time for us. Tomorrow, I will undergo my fifth round of chemo. Two days later, on Friday, immediately after my chemo pump is disconnected, I head back to Parkview for CT scans to determine if the chemo is doing what it's supposed to do, i.e., kill the cancer.   The oncologist explained that there is no point in subjecting me to chemo if it is not doing any good.  I probably won’t know the results of the scans before next Tuesday, 12/13/16.  

For the past eight weeks we have only had to focus on getting the chemotherapy and dealing with the side effects. Now, we are facing the unknown. We are trusting God for a good report.

In many ways, I feel like I am better than I was just prior to the cancer diagnosis. I am eating more. I have more energy. I have gained back some of the 20 pounds I lost. I feel like the chemo is working.

We are praying and believing for more than just the good news that the chemo has kept the cancer from spreading or that the cancer has shown some remission. We are believing God for a miracle – that the cancer is gone. We are grateful for all of those praying and believing with us. Nearly every single day, I learn of someone else who is praying for me.  Just today for example, I received a beautiful card signed by 11 different people from a dentist’s office in Baxter, Tennessee.  Our good friends, Maggie and Danny specifically asked their dentist and staff to keep me in their prayers.  It's just so amazing to me that people I have never even met, are spending time in prayer for me.  The fact that they would each write out a few encouraging words and send a card, just blows my mind! Thank you all from the bottom of my heart for all the prayers, encouraging words, cards, texts, phone calls, etc.  It means more to us than you will ever know.  Through all of this, I want to be proven trustworthy with this...the most personal and gloriously painful journey God has ever entrusted to me.