When cancer enters into your life, your focus, vision, goals, perspective, EVERYTHING changes. 5 years and 18 days ago (January 30, 2017) was that moment. At 38, 36, 11 and 8, our world was turned upside down.
Then we were good until April 4, 2018 - Rebekah's 13th Birthday. Cancer Round 2 began. Those of you that have followed us and our story, you know what we have walked through, if not, please feel free to read previous posts. I don't want to bore everyone with the recap here.
On October 6, 2021, I retired Round 2's hat - as Mooney had been stable for so long now and Marvin and K were imperceptible.
Well today the other shoe dropped! After 4 months and 10 days of joy at Battle 2 being done, the scan showed significant growth. The tumor's area has more that doubled.
We are blindsided by this news. We have been making plans further out than Scan-to-Scan which had been our life for so long now. We have been so full of life and hope that going into this scan NONE of us even considered that Mooney would be anything other than stable. But alas it is not as we expected.
How often is life actually as we expect? So we walk into the next Battle armed with love, life, hope and faith. Battle 3 began this morning with shock, tears, cursing, and renewed fear in each of us that we don't wish on ANYONE else. But then Battle 3 met Our Faith, as Alan and I clung to each other and prayed through the tears and the fears.
As I told each of our daughters this afternoon, more tears fell but also renewed conviction that God is guiding us. Later as the four of us discussed, we all strongly came together and discussed how God has each of us in a better place to support each other through this than in the previous two battles.
I'll update more in the coming days but for now we desire your prayers for healing, wisdom with decisions, unity and patience with each other, and most importantly His Glory to show through us.
- Melanie
“For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.”
2 Corinthians 10:3-4 NIV
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