One of the hardest things I have ever faced in life is watching those that I love the most suffer.  It is human nature to try to understand it, but it is so often not understandable.  Sometimes we may get a glimpse of some of the reasons in the future, but often we never know.… Read More

I promised I would try to be “real” here throughout this journey, so here it goes–some truth about the side effects of chemo. Saturday was a gift, I felt good–the tiredness had not kicked in, we went on a date . . .  It was a fabulous day. Then came Sunday morning. I took my… Read More

We had a great visit at Mayo today. I had blood drawn today and thankfully I am in the normal ranges for all of my blood work.  Which is great because it means my immunity is still high enough to fight.    So day #3 of chemo tomorrow. We are also doing the happy dance–and… Read More

I’ve made it through the 2nd chemo treatment with simple tiredness.  What wonderful grace and mercy I am experiencing at this moment.   So celebrate with me–I am taking the time any chance I get.What we have been up to:Over the weekend we celebrated my dad’s 75th birthday.  He turned 75 on July 5th, and… Read More

This morning is when we were scheduled to have the PET scan and I know many of you are waiting on a report of the results.  Late yesterday afternoon, after discussion with the Oncologist, we decided to postpone the PET scan from today to August 8th and postpone the port placement from 7/25 to 8/3.… Read More

Julie had her first treatment of Chemotherapy Friday morning as scheduled.  Her body has responded well to it so far — we have no way of knowing yet how the cancer itself is responding yet.  She has not experienced any major side effects yet,  but Sunday is supposed to be the worse day.  As of… Read More

Today I had a CT Scan,  Dr. Kasi called with the results this afternoon. He said the scans show that there are no tumors visible in any major organs. What a huge PRAISE!!! He says that it appears that the cancer is focused in my pelvic area.  This leads him to believe that we are… Read More

We went to the doctor today.  It is serious.  Based on what we know, before scans, bloodwork, etc.  He believes we are looking at a Stage 4 Cancer. He said we needed to be aggressive. Today we did blood work.Tomorrow we go for a CT Scan in the morning. They are hoping to get us… Read More

I couldn’t get to sleep last night.  And around 3 am I was up again. I asked Ben, “What is this–the 1st Day of School jitters?”I am not really nervous about this appointment.I’m ready to figure out what’s going on inside my body.I’m ready to get fighting this thing that wants to destroy my good… Read More

* This is a copy of our blog from New Beginnings Honduras this week….  I wanted to share in both places since this is both personal and ministry and there are some different followers. On Monday evening what we thought was an emergency appendectomy turned into something so much bigger.  When I woke up from… Read More