Houston...we have a problem!

I had planned to come home last night after we came back from Houston and let everyone know, who's interested, what news we received.  I had to sleep on it before I could let you guys read what we learned.  First of all, and most importantly, we know that God is in control and whatever decision we make will be because we feel we've followed His will.

M.D. Anderson is overwhelming.  There are people everywhere.  I felt as if we had walked into a convention.  People at different desks getting information, people waiting on the elevators, just lot's of people.  But when we saw the surgeon I also felt we were the only ones he cared about at the time.  He was very personable and spent over an hour with us.

Reality is what M.D. Anderson would do for Roy's type cancer is different than the plan we had orginally thought would work for us.  So, now we have to make a decision which way we want to go.  He would finish his chemotherapy here in Fort Worth.  As the surgeon said "Chemo is chemo" no matter where you receive it.  but, this is where it gets different.  In Houston, they would do another round of chemo with radiation before they do surgery.  We would be required to be in Houston for 5 weeks as Roy would get the radiation part every day for those 5 weeks....not exactly how we thought the end of the summer would be spent.  Surgery is still part of the plan but it would be much later...in the middle of the fall or later possibly.

This really took us by surprise, I guess we just thought the prodical (is that the way you spell it?) would be the same and what we were deciding on would be which surgeon to use.  So, there's got to be a lot more prayer in making a possibly new decision.  We are seeing the surgeon here in the middle of June.  His chemo isn't over until the end of June.  So there is a lot of time to pray for our decision.  Obviously, we want the best results.

What are shattered our confidence was being told that this cancer was not caught in the early stages.  Not to say it is the worse case scenerio but it isn't the best we had thought it was.  But, it is what it is and we have all the confidence that we'll come out on the other side being able to support any one else who has to walk this road.

God is in conrol and holding our hand. 

Linda