[GretchenEE]

I have a special prayer request for my friend, (FReeper) SiberMike, and his family. (Goodnesswins, Wphile, you met him at lunch last summer.) He just got word from his mother on the results of a biopsy done for two tumors in her sinus area. It wasn't good news.

She has two different types of cancer. The facial tumors are lymphatic large-cell, fast-growing, and extend behind and above one eye and under the bridge of her nose, crossing to the other side of her face. She also has small-cell, noncurable chronic lymphatic leukemia (CLC) which gives a life expectancy of ten to 15 years.

She started chemotherapy that lasts for 18 weeks (total of six treatments). Each treatment lasts six hours. The chemotherapy is making her very sick with nausea, etc. She didn't say if the tumors in her face are considered curable so Mike doesn't know what her overall life expectancy is when both cancers are considered. She is 61.

All the family are saved but any prayers anyone would like to pause for a moment and offer would be very welcome. Mike is very close to his mom in heart, although not in distance, and this is difficult for everyone.

[azGOPgal]

What terrible news. Mike's mother and their family will be added to my prayer list. 6 Hours of Chemo sounds so brutal.

[kayak]

Oh my goodness. Do tell Mike that he and his family are in our prayers!

[goodnesswins]

Prayers for SiberMike and his family....and may God lift his mother up in health and love......