If you're here at my blog because you're wondering what's going on with Alex and cancer, then you are not alone, so are we. His PET scan last Friday revealed that the main biggest tumor is still there and hasn't really shrunk since his PET scan in January that looked really good. His oncologist has referred him to a specialist and he will need to get a biopsy of the big tumor so that they have more information.
Based on how he was doing at the midway mark through the last 6 months of chemo all signs had pointed to success, but that is not where Friday left us. I was trying my best to hold space for this, but in all honesty... I didn't think this was going to be the outcome. (Daniel was in Peru when we got the news so he came back a few days earlier than planned just because being so far away when hard news comes is tough). What can I say? Now we wait for the biopsy. Now we wait for the evaluation of the specialist. Now we wait.
What I mostly said to God on Friday was, "NO!" An emphatic, with all my being "NO!" If I could by any means possible hit some kind of big red DECLINE button, I would. But I can't. There is only one way forward and that is through. And I'm gonna be honest, I don't want to go THROUGH. I don't want Alex to have to go THROUGH... I want an off ramp, a way OUT. I don't want God to tell me "I will be with you in your pain." I want him to say, "I'm going to heal Alex and get you out of this." And before you start thinking, "Wow. What a lack of faith!" I refer to Jesus:
"Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will.”
Matt 26:39
So at least I'm in good company.
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