After asking a number of questions throughout the day today, we ended up with the Gynecologist asking for a referral from a vascular surgeon who specializes in blood clots. After he examined Julie and we talked about a few things, he went back and consulted with another vascular surgeon and made a recommendation to move… Read More
Just a quick update to catch all of our prayer partners up to date on what is going on…… Julie’s pain continued to get worse and after several calls and visits with doctors, yesterday afternoon the decision was made to admit her back into the hospital to address the pain and dehydration and to do… Read More
It has been a long 17 days since surgery. We praise God that the surgeon was able to get everything and we praise God for the rapid healing that Julie experienced through the point of being discharged 10 days ago. However, we have had some setbacks since getting home. She developed a UTI and was… Read More
Julie continued to stay ahead of schedule on her recovery of the surgery so she was discharged this afternoon and we are home at her cousin’s in Jacksonville. She is scheduled to return next Friday (13th) to have the staples removed as well as to receive some immunizations required now that she doesn’t have a… Read More
Throughout the day of surgery and the first couple of days afterwards I was posting updates on Facebook, but I realized today that the Facebook prioritization system caused many of you to miss some of the updates. Therefore, so everybody is up to date I will provide a total summary here from the day of… Read More
So let’s just put the jump up and down info. out there first–I get to have chemo today. My white blood count numbers were actually UP today. Yall–say what???? The doctors were a little surprised. Now–not like amazingly higher–but higher is higher and usually they get lower every week.Next on the list of great news–my… Read More
We met with our gynecology surgeon today. He walked into our room, introduced himself, and said, “Thank you for the work you do for our Lord in Honduras. I’m sorry we are having to meet for these reasons.” What a great first impression he made with us.He then started asking a LOT of questions, and… Read More
Yesterday was full of fun pictures posted by friends and family all focused on the eclipse–and we tried to see it also, but our south Georgia weather just did not cooperate. Our family watched it on TV. But yesterday also marked the day that my sweet sister-in-law Lisa went to live with Jesus in Heaven.… Read More
Praising God this morning! The Pet Scan did not show the cancer in any “new” places. Only in the same areas that we have previously been told about. Stop right now and let’s give a little shout out!!! The biopsy confirmed that we definitely have ovarian type cancer. The only changes we will be making… Read More
Finished chemo #4 with my cousin Charlene Bonn. Dr. Kasi came in and said he talked to the pathologist last night about the biopsy. He said they are still leaning towards ovarian cancer. He also said he thought we would probably do chemo for about 6 months. (With surgery somewhere in the mix.) He also… Read More
