saw a friend tonight that has been checking my blog for updates. told her I did not have anything to say. I did kind of leave you hanging by not giving you the "final" results of my ct scan.
final result was almost the same. it read "most" of the lung tumors were still smaller than the previous scan in May. the peri-aortic lympn node was unchanged. Stubborn little sucker, to quote Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman when she flipped that oyster, or whatever it was, across the restaurant. now that I think about it she said slippery little sucker. still funny.
but now I am having severe right arm pain. had venous dopplar study for clots, none. had neck and right shoulder mri, found some issues but the torn long tendon on the biceps muscle seems to be the culprit. also had xrays on right are, no tumors on right arm and shoulder, that's great. so, steroid injection right anterior shoulder joint. do some exercises. now lets see what happens.
the medical community does not expect the tumors to be "gone". their goal is to reduce them and no new sites. now I can live with that. but I will not be satisfied until they're gone. that's my goal.
now about those dark places. you really did not think they would go away did you? they are never far away. I do know some things are almost guaranteed to lift me above them or at least to the top half of them.
my traveling worship choir, Fresh Winds. whether practicing, performing, or just hanging out that does it. and crossroads. especially last wednesdays. if you have never been, you don't know what you are missing. there is no adequate way to describe it. it's one of those things you just have to be there......
tonite brian shared with us that God wants us to take adventures. now this adventure I'm on would never have been my choice but I know that God is and will do things in me and my family that could never have happened on another path. as you can imagine we have not seen all these as yet. guess He'll just have to keep me around for a while huh? no harm in asking for sure.
