Posted on 12/14/2006 7:50:21 PM PST by Brad’s Gramma
I received a FRmail tonight from Freeper kayak regarding a health issue that her doctors have discovered. Some of you, apparently, are already aware of this. I DO have her permission to put this thread up. She will not be on here to respond as she's still working and will be starting treatments.
Anyway, from kayak....Several weeks ago as part of my routine annual physical I had a chest x-ray. When it came back showing some suspicious shadows, the doc ordered a CT scan which also showed the shadows. So last week I had a bronchoscopy and got the results on Monday.
I have lung cancer. The good news is that of the 2 kinds I have the least aggressive kind and it can usually be removed surgically. The bad news is that because of the location of the cancer it can't be gotten to surgically without doing damage to parts I need.
So I'm facing a regimen of chemo and radiation probably. Monday I have an appointment with an oncologist to begin planning how we're going to attack this thing.
Please PLEASE pray for kayak!!!
Dear Lord God, our hearts are heavy tonight with this news from kayak. She is a dear lady who loves you with all of her heart. Thank you for giving her so VERY many prayer warriors, thank you for giving her a WONDERFUL husband who has been nothing but 100% supportive of her.
Lord, I pray for a "Logan Miracle". Lord, please heal her body. Please guide the medical personnel who will be helping her through this. Please give her YOUR peace. Peace that passes all understanding.
In Your Name,
Amen!
Dear Kayak, I am very sorry for what is happening to you and will keep you in my prayers. I once heard that Christmas is a time of special grace or you might say full of grace to be exact,so that is what I ask of our Lord for you. I will pray for a healing, but also all that is good for ones soul shall bring glory to our God.I will also keep your family in my prayers. I am sick and in pain a lot myself and I try to remember to unite myself and my sufferings to that of our Lords' for his holy will to be done. God bless,Nora
Your situation is exactly the same as mine was in August of 1997. I was diagnosed with lung cancer and it was inoperable.. The cancer was wrapped around my aorta.
I started Chemo in early September with Taxol every three weeks. It was terrible. At nine weeks into the treatment (3 doses of taxol) the doctor ordered a cat scan. It showed the cancer had been reduced by half. He ordered two more treatments of the CHEMO. At the end of the 5th treatment he had a second cat scan done. The cancer was now 1/4 the original size.
At that point we went to a combination of less potent CHEMO and radiation. The negative side effects of TAXOL are terrible. That lasted until the end of January 1998. At that point a cat scan showed I was cancer free.
They then ordered 15 additional radiation treatments to make sure they had it all. At the end of my treatments I was as weak as a sick kitty, but I was cancer free. But within a few months I was doing fine.
At that point, they started blood tests and chest X-RAYs every 3 months for two years. Then every six months for 2 years. At that point they said I was cured.
Then just about 10 weeks ago I had a seizure while driving my car. The cops found me passed out in my wrecked car and called the emergency squad to take me to the Local Hospital. A cat scan showed a brain tumor and they life flighted me to Columbus. There they removed the cancerous tumor. The doctor told my daughter that the odds said I might live a couple of more years in a nursing home.
But after I recovered from the operation, I killed the Nursing Home bit and came to my own home. My Children stayed with me for a week.
I have been living alone since then. Last Monday I had my first MRI and blood tests. The MRI showed no cancer and the Blood tests showed no cancer as well.
I started driving again last week.
The interesting thing is I went to my GR last week. She told me from the original reports she read,t she was pretty certain I would not survive.
Yes the treatments today are far better than they were a few years ago. But a lot of survival is in never giving up. I kept my self alive during the lung cancer in 1997 by telling myself that I would recover to the point I could wash my car. In May of 1998.. I washed my car. I washed it in 1/4ths. Between each 1/4th I had to sit down and rest.
A couple of years later I was doing 5 mile walks at 16 minutes a mile.
After the brain tumor was removed, I told myself I would recover enough to sing at the Paint Valley Jamboree. Two weeks after I was discharged from the hospital, I walked onto the Stage of the Paxton Theater and sang my songs.
I would urge you to eat a balanced diet. ... heavy in anti oxidants. I would urge you to eat all you can keep down. The CHEMO causes most people to lose a lot of weight. Their immune system weakens. I forced my self to eat all the stuff that skinny people are not allowed to eat. I actually gained weight on CHEMO.
Last Friday I went to see my GP doctor. She is very pretty. When she saw me she said, "You look fantastic!" I pretended to lose my balance and fell into a chair. When she asked what happened to me, I replied, "You are the first woman to ever say that to me!"
Keep believing you are going to kill the cancer. Refuse to let it kill you and keep your sense of humor. Ask God to help you defeat the cancer. Ask your friends and family to pray for you and don't forget to pray for yourself.
I recently saw a study that showed that those that believe in God, pray, and have others pray for them do the best at defeating cancer. But remember God helps those that help themselves.
You can defeat lung cancer. If I can do it, anyone can.
God Bless and Keep You.. You will be in my prayers.
Ray Malone .. 'Tator
Prayers for your strength, healing and calmness of spirit dear kayak.
Prayers being sent for a full and speedy recovery.
Prayers offered.
Prayers said for dear kayak.
Pinging you to the thread about our dear friend, kay.
Prayers
We will remember you on the air on Monday (((Hugs)))Betty
Dear Lord, we pray for kayak. Dear Lord, give her caregivers the wisdom for her complete recovery. God bless her family. She is such a wonderful person and so faithful in prayer for others.
Prayers sent for Kayak and her family.
Special prayers, dear one!
More prayers for you. May God continue His watch over you, His healing for you, and His embrace around you. May He continue to bless and guide the hands that will provide your care, and may He lift the burden of worry on your heart. May His strength, love, and peace surround you and carry you through these difficult days to come.
I am sure Brad's Gramma will keep us posted.
Hugs,
Kate
Prayers for our Kay, BTTT
Please get this site to kayak.
Tell her to print out the 'Healing Confession' and to pray it evey day!
http://www.patsysmiracle.com/
Also that she is in our prayers as Richard & I say it every day.
Many of us have come to know kayak and hold her dear to our hearts because of the powerful witness she is of Your love and grace. In her time of need we bring her to You, the Author and Giver of life and health. We commit to You every aspect of her healing, for we know it is Your desire that she prosper and walk in health. You are our God of grace and glory. No good thing do You withhold from those who love You and who walk uprightly before You. We pray in confidence, knowing that Your Word does not fail. This assault upon kayak's body is from the hand of the prince of darkness, and we confess in the Name of Jesus that the light of the Savior shall shine forth and the darkness shall be made to flee. Thank You, Holy Father, that You will use what was intended for evil, and will bring goodness and blessings to kayak even in the midst of this trial. Hide her in the shadow of Your wings, Great God, until these calamities pass. We rejoice in the knowledge that You Who began a good work in her will be faithful to complete it until the day of Jesus Christ, in Whose Awesome Name we pray. Amen.
Prayers for kayak, that she may have an easy chemo and/or radiation therapy with relief from her cancer.
Kayak is, indeed, a very special lady with an indomitable spirit supplied by her healing angels, sent from Heaven.
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