Update:
Today I had my follow-up PET scan followed by the reading. Here are all the findings...
Initial Scan Dated February 19, 2013...my grand-son's 4th birthday...
Widespread Metastatic Malignancy, widespread involvement by malignancy.
Affected areas include: Right Scapula (shoulder blade); Posterior Left Iliac Crest (the superior border of the wing of the Ilium. The pelvic girdle looks like a butterfly, the Iliac is the tip of the butterfly wing, if you will, the outer top side curve.); Spine; Sacrum (Large triangle bone at the base of the spine and the upper and back part of the pelvic cavity, where it is inserted like a wedge between the two hip bones, its upper part connects with the last lumbar vertebra and bottom part with the tailbone.); Both Clavacles (collar bones); Multiple Ribs; Spleen; Hilar Lymph Nodes (the "hilium" of this lymph node is the concave portion of the lymph node where the different vessels exit...these in particular would be leading to the spleen, kidneys and lungs.); Mediastinal Lymph Nodes (The Mediastinum is the undelineated group of structures in the thorax (your breastplate.) It is the central compartment of the thoracic cavity, the phrenic nerve, the cardiac nerve, the thoracic duck, the thymus and the lymph nodes of the central chest.); the Colon.
Follow-Up PET Scan Dated March 25, 2013
Report Findings: "Compared to the PET scan of 2/19/13, there has been complete eradication of all of the PET abnormalities and eradication or improvement in the corresponding CT abnormalities...No Malignancy found."
Head & Neck: No evidence of Metastatic disease
Chest: Pulmonary, Mediastinal, Hilar, and axillary update are normal
Abdomen: Uptake in the liver, spleen, adrenal glands, retroperitoneum, and mesentery is normal
Pelvis: There is no suspicious pelvic or inguinal lymph node uptake
Osseous Structures (Spine): There are no suspicious abnormalities
Final.
The week leading up to this follow-up PET scan...everyone I spoke to I said this is how I need you to pray...I want my report to be clean! I want there to be no lesions...please ask Largely of God...I don't want this to be greatly reduced...I want to see it gone.
This morning before I left the house for the hospital, I notified the director of our Prayer Chain and said turn the Prayer Chain on at 10 am and don't turn it off till I call you....I'm sorry, I just have to pause to clear my eyes....this has been such an unbelievable, overwhelming, victorious day...my emotions and senses are all wide open....He's so worthy of my praise...I've cried all afternoon just astounded and humbled at the greatness of my God.
On my way to the hospital, I was hurting and my pain had been very high for the past three days, and I said “Lord, my physical body and pain is telling me that nothing has changed, but my faith wants to believe I’m healed…I believe I am healed, I believe You” At 10 am my PET was scheduled, that takes about 2 hours...we would then go the the Oncologists office for the reading at 2:30 pm. With my sister and my husband in the room...the doctor came in and sat down and said, "well, you're clean"...neither, Jana, Kirk or I moved, breathed, spoke...we sat paralyzed for what seemed an eternity...then I said quietly "could you say that again?"...he replied "I don't know what you tell you, there are no lesions in your spine, there are no abnormalities anywhere in your body, there's not even a polyp...I don't know what to say, you're clear." As we began, one at a time to exhale, the sobs, shouts, thanksgiving, joy and floods of every kind of emotion began to flood that room...He said this has been an emotional ride for y'all, I'll give you some time to absorb this all....you could hear us sobbing all down the halls and his nurse came in and said..."tears of joy, you can recognize them anywhere." The swells of sobbing, worshipping, thanking the Lord, was as violent of a ride as the journey to this day has been....Saying "thank you" to my Father God seems so inadequate....what I loved was the verbiage I used and asked for "clean" was the exact wording the doctor would use to describe the findings...God is so cool! It's the weirdest thing...all afternoon, it's just impossible to go about my normal day now...I'll be just fine and then all of a sudden, I'll just burst into hysterical tears for about 5 minutes...then I'll get control of myself and then it'll happen all over again....my gratitude is just too great to be contained!
In the very beginning He gave me the scripture II Chronicles 20:12, 15, 17 "For I have no power against this great multitude that is coming against me, nor do I know what to do, but my eyes are upon you. (15) Thus says the Lord to you (me), "Do not be afraid nor dismayed because of this great multitude, for the battle is not yours, but God's. (17) You will not need to fight in this battle. Position yourself, stand still and see the salvation of the Lord, who is with you, O Judah (Cherri) and Jerusalem. Do not fear or be dismayed, tomorrow go out against them, for the Lord is with you (me)." Daily, I would read this, quote it, speak it when the days were so dark and sometimes felt never ending in their torment...I would look up to the heavens and say..."God, you promised You'd take care of all this if I just kept my eyes on you...my job was to focus on You and Your job was to take care of me!" I don't think there was a day that went by that I didn't do that at some point...He's so faithful...He kept His promise to me. A promise of such magnitude, I can't express to you what that has done in my heart...nothing short of my everything will ever, ever come close to being enough given to Him.
I wish I could crawl up in His lap and just kiss His face...wrap my arms around His neck, and squeeze Him so tight and let my tears of gratitude soak His beard as I whisper into His ear, I Love You Father, Thank You...You exchanged death for life, once again. My Sails are Forever Set Father Towards Your Face....
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