such a blog hog

Pray hard, Team Tricia - tomorrow is my mom's next big scan! As you probably know, it's mainly being done to check on those enlarged lymph nodes in her chest, but we know her pancreatic cancer could show up again at any moment. So just pray for a scan that's clear of all types of cancer!

Mom had blood work done when she got her herceptin a couple weeks ago. We prayed for normal tumor markers. If you're wondering why I never posted the results of those tests, it's because we never received them. As it turned out, somehow her tumor markers didn't get done. That's a little frustrating, but we weren't too upset about it because we've been focused on other things. I don't want to elaborate on this too much, because we don't know anything for sure . . . but I will say that we received some encouraging news last week. :-) I think I'm even a little bit excited about tomorrow (weird). We're cautiously planning on good news. And we're planning on God sustaining us even if we don't get good news.

And we're also planning on spending the afternoon playing with a really cute 11-month-old. Oh, because there's one at our house right now. Baby Z's foster family is out of the country, so she's hanging with us for the next week. Respite care is fun. Did I mention she's really cute? Because she is.

Okay, back to Trish (she's such a blog hog) . . . I think we have to be at the clinic at 10 in the morning. Trish will have lab (tumor markers for real this time), then the CT scan, and then see Dr. Tauer. Hopefully we'll have some news to report by lunchtime.  

Here are the prayer requests for tomorrow in review:

• a scan that shows no cancer or disease of any kind anywhere in Mom's body
• normal tumor markers
• some definite answers to whatever's going on in these mystery lymph nodes . . . preferably answers that include fixable problems!
• wisdom for Dr. Tauer
• peace for our hearts
• God's glory to be revealed

Also, I want to follow-up on the prayer requests I posted a few weeks ago.

• After a grueling round of chemo, a biopsy that showed remission(!), and five and a half weeks in the hospital, our friend Karen got to go home last week! Pray that God will strengthen her as she enjoys this time at home with her family and that her leukemia will remain in remission.
• Our friend LeAn's sister-in-law Kathy starts her chemo for pancreatic cancer tomorrow at 9am! Her treatment has been delayed a few weeks because she's been in the hospital with elevated bilirubin (sound familiar? Trish had that problem this time last year). Pray that her treatment this week will be hard on the bad cells and easy on the good! LeAn keeps a caringbridge site for Kathy here.
• I didn't share this last time, but our friend Joan had a PET scan today - her first after the latest change in her treatment for her lung cancer. Pray that she'll get good news when she meets with her doctor on Wednesday!

Goodnight, dear blog readers. I'll post some news tomorrow!