Houston....we're still here

I really expected to be writing from my own home tonight but the doctors here in Houston had a different thought..

We met with the oncologist today.  She wanted another endoscope to determine better the location of the mass.  Ofcourse, we said sure...we'll stay for another 2 days.  I might have to go shopping since I really didn't expect to stay and didn't bring enough clothes...lesson learned...be prepared for more days each visit.  So, we will meet with the anethesilogist tomorrow and have a procedure on Thursday.  Then we will come home and once she (the oncologist) reads the report she will tell us when to come back for the 5 weeks of chemo/radiation

.  We decided that we were a day late and a dollar short.  If we had come up with the idea of shuttles we would be rich.  Each hotel has a free shuttle to the hospitals.  There are more shuttles in this area of Houston than I have ever seen anywhere.  So, wished we had thought of it..ofcourse, we would have had to have lived in the area and, no offense to anyone who lives down here, it's hot and humid.

M.D. Anderson is amazing.  Not that I really like the place.  We went to have blood work done today and when we walked into the waiting room there were about 30 people waiting. My first thought was we were going to be there all day.  But they took about 10 people at a time and we were in and out within 20 minutes.  There is still a feeling of being just another number...no one seems too concern about the individual.  Maybe I'm just wishing we were at home instead of sitting in a hotel.

There was a man sitting down from me today waiting to get his blood work.  He was talking about how God had worked through his cancer and that he wasn't even suppose to be alive at this point in time.  I just sat and listened and appreciated all that he said.  I know there is a plan in our lives and this is just part of the journey that God has given us to walk.

So, hopefully we will get to go home Thursday and stay home for a while.  Our prayer is that the chemotherapy that he has already done has shrunk this mass which will make surgery a little easier. Nothing is going to keep us from having surgery but whatever makes it easier would be a good thing.

God is in control and holding our hand.

Linda