pink and purple and blessed all over

Oh, hey, friends. My name is Callie. Remember me?

Sorry my blog has been rather boring lately. If it makes you feel any better, I've been working on a really long and awesome story (a true story, that is) that I've been meaning to post for like two months now. But first an update on your favorite blog hog, Trish . . .

First of all, it's breast cancer awareness month and almost pancreatic cancer awareness month. And how cool is it that I just found a graphic with both pink and purple ribbons? It's like it was made for Trish! Did I really just get excited about that? Yep, I really did.

I actually have no update yet. I just wanted to remind everyone to be praying, because my mom's next CT scan/appointment with her oncologist is TOMORROW! Happy Halloween! Who wants to make bets on what Dr. Tauer will be dressed as? Twenty bucks says he's Mickey Mouse. Or a pancreatic adenocarcinoma cell (now that's scary!). It's definitely going to be one of those.

As you long-time Tricia fans already know, we've been watching (well, technically Dr. T and radiology have been watching) three enlarged lymph nodes in Mom's chest and abdomen for about 3 1/2 months now. We have no idea if those lymph nodes are cancer or not. Her last CT scan was two months ago, and it was unchanged from her scan in July. If you need a refresher about her last appointment, click here.

Trish saw Dr. Behrman (surgeon) last month, and he was so pleased with her Whipple recovery that he doesn't want to see her again for a year! He also didn't seem the least bit concerned about the enlarged lymph nodes. Mom's tumor markers in August were normal (for both breast cancer and pancreatic cancer). The routine blood work that's done every three weeks (when she gets Herceptin) has been normal. And she's still looking and feeling great! So, while we have no idea what to expect tomorrow, we're very hopeful that we will receive more good news. I told Mom a few minutes ago that I'm starting to worry because I'm not worried. Weird.

Anyway, here are the requests for tomorrow . . .

• A clear (or unchanged) scan. We're expecting those mystery lymph nodes to show up; we're just hoping they haven't changed. And those of us who are really crazy are hoping God has fixed this problem completely and we'll get an "all clear!" : )
• Normal tumor markers
• Wisdom for Dr. Tauer
• Peace for our hearts 
• God's glory to be revealed

We'll talk to Dr. Tauer and get the results of the scan tomorrow. I'll be at the clinic with Trish and will post the results as soon as I can. The tumor markers will take a few days.

Thanks for praying!