Two trips this week to San Antonio...

Before any updates on my medical stuff, I need to update about Dad's. Dad has been sick for several weeks now. He was in the hospital for ten days, during which he suffered a mild heart attack. After three and a half weeks at home, he is now in Laman-Lusk-Sanchez Veteran's Home. He has not been able to eat much for a month or longer, he is in late-stage heart disease, and is in pain all of the time. While we are hoping things will turn around for him with the help of the professionals at the facility, we know that it may not happen. He is not doing well at all, and we don't know how much longer he can survive the way things are going. Our family really needs and appreciates your prayers for Dad and Mom, whose 61st wedding anniversary was Tuesday. Dad asked us to pray specifically for two things: his suffering and for God's will to be done.

Our appointment in San Antonio on Monday included a DEXA scan, which measures bone densities. One of the possible side effects of my drug is bone loss, so I am required to have this scan every six months. They are not really looking for cancer with this, so we will not know results for a few days. I did gain the two pounds back that I had lost, so I seem to be holding pretty much where I am, which I am OK with. I think I needed to lose a few pounds anyway. Everything went all right, so we came back home on Monday.

We had an appointment today with Dr. DeArmond and set a tentative date for surgery on my right lung on June 29. He said he is seeing four masses that he hopes to be able to remove, none larger than about one and a half centimeters in diameter. Two of them should be pretty easy to get to and cut out, but the other two may be more difficult to get. He expressed confidence that he could get them all. The procedure should be about the same as last time on the other lung. We have been discussing this with Dr. Mita, and she is in agreement that this is a good move for us. We continue to seek God in all of this, and are counting on Him to make things happen that need to happen for us to remain in His will. We look forward to what He has for us.

Please pray for Lou Warren, our church secretary, who has recently been diagnosed with renal carcinoma. She is a faithful believer who loves the Lord and is leaning on Him during this time.

God is good...