Another Call To Arms

Okay, Dr. Nemunaitis called this morning, and he had met with Dr. Senzer and Dr. Kuhn re: the results of Dad's ultrasound. They have decided that they don't want to perform the surgery now. They all feel that the boundaries of the pancreatic cancer are not clearly enough defined. They want to use the "cyber-knife" to "outline" the cancer parameters so they can get all of it without disrupting any of the cells and releasing them into the blood stream. Dr. Nemunaitis indicated this is a very difficult surgery under any circumstances, but that this will help insure the success to a greater level. So Dad will finish his chemo (tomorrow) and then we find out when his appointment with the radiologist (Neil Senzer). The radiation will be five consecutive days, one or two rounds of this treatment. Then they will wait 4-6 weeks for the surgery. While they are radiating the pancreas, the liver tumor will be left untreated.

PRAY that it does not grow or create new lesions. Dr. Nemunaitis indicated that new tumors in the liver would make surgery "not an option". We don't know if that means until they can do another round of chemo or at all. We don't want to find out. So prayer warriors, mount up! Time to do battle yet again. Pray against the deceiving lies of the enemy that whisper fearful and discouraging lies even in the midst of the Lord's faithfulness. Pray that God would exchange a garment of praise for a spirit of heaviness. Most of all pray for the cancer to be pushed back into full retreat. It's so funny because we fight against waiting for news of the next phase of treatment, when we should be using the time to rest in preparation for the next phase of the battle. The next battle is here. It's not the news or the fight we wanted, but since when did we have the choice? So this is the call to arms. Thank you, thank you, thank you for standing with us.