Today

When I sent out the first news about Judy's cancer returning a friend of mine said she saw the email arrive from me and was assuming she would get a good chuckle from it. As in that case, I am not sure that I can raise any smiles in this update.

The result of the CT scan of Judy's liver confirmed that the cancer has spread. There are multiple lesions on the liver and this really has over shadowed the other areas of concern. The oncologist explained that the cancer is now spreading through the blood system, so it is possible that it can affect the other organs in the boby. They will be monitoring Judy very closely and may do other tests to check.

Judy is losing weight quite quickly so they want to start her on some appetite enhancing medicine.

At this stage they do not want to start Judy on Chemo. We are not exactly sure of the reasoning as yet but I suspect that they really want to limit the amount of bad news that throw at you in one go.

We did ask today about the prognosis and while they are not able to be very definitive they did indicate it is very poor.

We are now trying to take a day to gather our thoughts. It is a shock when you think that 2 months ago Judy was in seemingly great health.

We have a lot of decisions to make over the next days and weeks but we still need to gather more info, reflect on the situation, pray, speak with our doctors etc. So while today has bought a lot of clarity to our situation it is does not answer all questions and poses many new ones.

I will try to keep this updated when there is news or just reflections we want to share with you all. I hope that Judy will make some entries here as well.

We had a beautiful sermon on Sunday morning and we share with Nebuchadnezzar the assertion that the Lord's will can not be thwarted. We know the road that He maps out for us looks dark and we rely on His strenght to carry us through the days ahead.