The Big Day

APRIL 9th.

The big day is scheduled. Early morning surgery starts at 7:30.

Surfing forward

Oh, those people at despair.com...they absolutely crack me up. The stuff they come up with.

Sometimes life feels like this. Can't say that we haven't wrestled through trying to make sense of things at times. However, it'd be a tragedy to view our circumstances as bad luck. I'll be honest, it's not always easy to hold on to a right perspective of things. When difficulty comes, I can only stare at the wave...my eyes can't see God's perspective. But if God truly reigns over His creation, then life's trying times simply can't be a misfortune. God rules! We're thankful that He has a plan and purpose for it all.

On Tuesday, our oncologist sat us down in the office and told us the news: tumor markings came back in normal range. (Yes!) Because it was an aggressive mixed tumor type and at stage two, there's still about a 40% chance that undetectable levels of cancer cells may have escaped into the lymph nodes. His recommendation: Retroperitoneal Lymph Node Dissection (RPLND). This means that Tim gets to look into short term disability from work because he'll be needing some serious recovery time after this surgery.

Looks like it'll be next month some time. We'll continue to keep you updated. Thanks for praying!

Random Happenings

There have been a couple little things that have been fun additions to our home. Tim won a gift card at work for JC Penny. We were looking for some curtains for our living room, but the ones we were looking at were a little out of our price range. We checked the price of the curtains every time we went to the store. After winning this gift card, we went online to look at all of their curtains and actually liked these curtains better! We finally bought the curtains! We were so excited to order them, but then disappointed when they didn't have any in stock and had to wait a few weeks before getting them! Here's a picture of our new addition. We are so pleased with the new look! It's amazing how much curtains can add to a room!


The other fun addition was a surprise from Tim! I came home last week from school to see these happy flowers on the table! He had told me earlier that morning that he was going to throw away my roses from Valentine's Day. I definitely kept the roses much longer than I should have, and I kept asking Tim not to throw them away. He decided that since the old ones had to go, he would get me new flowers! He's so sweet! What a happy surprise!!