Nancy had wanted us to pray for biopsy results before Memorial Day and that prayer was answered. But not with the news we had wanted to hear. The test confirmed that her cancer has reached her liver. This was an aggressive path. The doctors are moved right away. She went into the hospital to get a port and received chemo today. They are completing a battery of tests to define the scope of the situation. She may come back home tomorrow or Monday. We'll see.
The kids are all here and their support is wonderful. This is a family weekend, and we are wanting the time to be together and let Nancy get some rest after a rigours couple of days. So, if you are in our area, wait for me to put out the "visitors welcome sign" before you show up at our door.
It has been a stunning three weeks. We need prayer to begin the next leg of the journey with faith. And we need prayer that the disease will be rolled back by the One who know how we are formed.
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8 comments:
It was hard to read your news but please know we are praying! I'm so glad the kids are there. Congrats to KJ. (Wasn't it just yesterday that she was a sleeping infant at our "leadership training" weekend retreat??) Love, Bev
i just got a copy of josh's letter to bridge, that bess forwarded to me. i was praying that if possible, you might find out the test results before next tuesday... it was hard and terribly sad to read that the cancer had spread.
know that i am praying,
love to you all
judi
our hearts are heavy....we are praying for complete healing from the Great Physician. we pray that His presence would feel the nearest it's ever been. love, lori and jim
Dear Dan and Nancy,
Thank you for walking this hard road through the valley of shadow with faith, and for sharing your journey with us. Praying you will see the good feast at the end of the valley, and soon, and in this world. I can't help but have a sense that you have taken a bullet for some of us, that your suffering somehow protects someone else in the mission. Don't know if that is Biblical, but if it is then how can we say thank you? Only by faithfully going on as you would.
Love, Jennifer and Scott
HATED to read this post. Know that our prayers are with you. We pray that the comfort of our Father is with you and that HE will heal you Nancy, and sustain you Dan, Josh, Leah and KJ.
Mary
My sister, my brother: I ache for you in your doubt and suffering. You are in our prayers, and of course in our hearts.
ron
So sorry to hear this news, but know you have an army praying for you guys. We just sang at church yesterday "When you walk through the waters, I will be with you; and the waves, they will not overcome you. Do not fear... You are mine." - Phil and Shanna
we are saddened by thhe news, and we pray that you all will feel the presence of Jesus and his comfprting arms around your family.
chris and lisa hildebrand
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