A Club I Didn’t Want to Join

God’s got this! It is going to be okay.

Thursday morning we met Dr. Yu at her office. Today I had an appointment at a CANCER CENTER. In preparation for this appointment to keep my calm (remember I FREAK OUT) I drove over to the center the night before and prayed in the parking lot over the meeting. I knew in my heart this is His will and the storm we are facing but for my peace and especially my husband’s peace as we received the diagnosis to remain in peace. Unexplainable peace.

We entered a very unfamiliar building with the kindest volunteers who somehow KNEW we were first time guests to this club. The sweet old man escorted me to registration and then led us up the elevator like a valet service. We waited. A quick exam of vitals and health history review and Dr. Yu enters. Turns out we are also going to practice patience along with peace. The team of peer experts reviewing my case felt they did not have enough tissue to sign off on the preliminary diagnosis. So we have a diagnosis with an * So special I am. Again His hand is all on this. We will wait for His perfect plan. There will be a reason for this wait.

So what we know now is a preliminary diagnosis is Hodgkin’s Lymphoma possibly stage 2. Dr. Yu was direct, drew me a visual diagram, and gave explicit next steps. In her information sharing I heard the words TREATABLE and CURABLE and those two words are what I will cling to trust His plan is greater than our own. He has made a promise to me in Det. 31:8

As we left with our list of appointments to make with scheduling on the way out we glanced around a now full waiting area Chris Harris jokingly said, “Well babe you won the award today for the YOUNGEST patient in this place.” We laughed. Looks like I joined a club I didn’t want to belong to a little young.

Join us in prayer and follow our journey through this storm.