More Notes to Consider

Some things I forgot to mention in my last post that are related to it in some way. Hmmm, we will see if you follow with me in how they are related.

First, I said that it appears that most people with the form of cancer that Mom has survive about two years. I know that is not definitive! Mom is reading a blog of a lady that is at nine years now. Some of our dearest friends from the time we lived near Chicago, well Arnie was diagnosed with the same form of brain cancer I believe when us kids were in middle school. He lived for another 20 years! Over half of that time was good time. So I know these things are possible.

Second, my mother-in-law's mother died of brain cancer about 50 years ago. This journey we are on has brought some flashbacks and bad memories for her. I wonder how they even diagnosed her brain cancer without the technology of Catscans and MRIs that showed the doctors what Mom had. There also were not the treatment options available for Rose that are now available for my mom. I did ask Ralene how long between her mom's diagnosis and the end. She told me it was three months. That fits exactly with Dr. Stanfield's statement about 11 weeks with no treatment.

Above all things, we serve an awesome God that can do all things! This brought to mind a Michael W. Smith song: Above all powers, above all kings, above all nature and all created things, above all wisdom and all the ways of man, you were here before the world began.