From September 10, 2008

First of all, thanks for your continued prayers and support over the past week - you guys continue to be incredible.

So here's the update on our girl. We're 2 weeks and 2 days post-op. We thought she'd be walking around but she's still in a good bit of pain and weak, although she's getting stronger each day. Her surgeons tell us she's healing fine. We met with the Oncologist today, her cancer treatment doctor, and he outlined where we go from here.

He said that we need to get ready for 5 months of chemotherapy, and he'd like to start in 2 or 3 weeks.

If her body is ready for it in 2 weeks, she'll have a minor surgery where a "port-a-cath" will be put in her chest. It's a small device that lies underneath the skin and hooks into a vein. Its purpose is to allow easy access for the chemotherapy drugs. After we get this in, we're ready to start the chemo

Specific prayer requests are these -
1) for wisdom on our part,
2) wisdom on the part of Bev's doctors,
3) that Bev would really turn the corner so that her strength increases and pain decreases,
4) that Bev would get much-needed sleep (the pain meds keep her up),
5) for Bev's nerves going into chemo,
6) that our ability to have children be preserved after all this

Love,

Dustin & Bev


"Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest." Matthew 11:28