Monday, March 22,2010
Lots has happened since I last wrote in my blog. Dr. Demers told us we could zip up to Georgia for a few days which we did. It was good medicine, especially when Kathy's family drove up to celebrate Gary's birthday. Was such a treat to worship with our All Saints family in Blairsville. We miss them a lot. When we returned to FL Kristy's family was here from TX for a week. Lots of dinners together, activities with Julie's kids, celebrated Tyler's 9th bday, visited the Butterfly Encounter, viewed soccer game...more fun. Dr. Demers took out my drain and told us that another 8 lymph nodes also came back negative- for a total of 14. Today I had my first chemo treatment. It went very smoothly and I will be faithful to take my anti nausea pills for a few days, so that it will continue. Yesterday a friend delivered a Chemo Caddy to me from their St Luke's Care Ministry. How awesome. It must have had 20 necessary items for comfort and things to pass the time with.
We continue to praise and thank God for His presence and healing for all His children including our friend Duane whose cancer was contained with no further treatments. My morning verse from Ps 18:2 reminded me that "the Lord is my Rock, my fortress, my deliverer..in whom I take refuge. He is my stronghold." That is so true and we are so blessed. Each of you is so special and loved by us. Thanks for standing with us.

, ,March 8, 2010
Will remember today as the day we received the wonderful news that the 8 nodes that Dr. Demers took last Thursday ALL came back NEGATIVE.
We are praising and thanking our great God for being our ROCK to hang onto through this cancer journey and my HEALER. Last week my oncologist, Dr. Shah told us that, "the cancer is gone...now we work on prevention." Wow! Chemo treatments will begin March 22 for 6 months followed by radiation. Will do my wig shopping soon. So we have permission to zip up to the cabin in GA for a few days. When we come back we can continue celebrating with Kristy's family who will come from TX. We have Tyler's 9th birthday, Joe's 13th, Kara's 22nd, Kevin's 19th, Jake's 16th and Gary's 70th to give thanks for. Wow! That's a lot of March birthdays. Praise God from whom all blessings flow. Please add dear friends, Duane and Mary Ann, to your lists for strength and peace for the days ahead.
Much love and thanks to all of our faithful prayer warriors.
Gary and Carol Lynn

Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Just returned for post op appt with doctor who told us that 2 of 4 lymph nodes that he checked came back with cancer. So tomorrow I will go back for more surgery to take a larger section to analyze. The good news was that the margins that he took around the lump were clear, so there is no more cancer in my breast. God is so good and He will carry me through the latest detour in my path. We thank God for Gretchen's news that she is cancer free following her double mastectomy on Thurs, as well as Rosemary's eye surgery that went well yesterday. Looking forward to celebrating Grandma Fink's 94th birthday with family. Will hold on to the verse in my journal that Jessica chose for me for tomorrow's surgery from Ps 46:1..God is our refuge and strength, an ever present help in trouble.