God Showed Up and Showed Out

Here's a recap of our journey: When Harry and I married in 2009, he was the answer to my specific prayer request. I prayed for a companion for my older years. But in 2015, Harry was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer and given nine or 10 months to live. Along with our family and friends we prayed. My specific prayer at that time was that God would not take my companion away. By God's grace in 2018, the cancer treatments ended. Since then, with every CT scan, we were given the same report--the tumors in Harry's lungs and other parts of his body had stopped growing. They were quiet. 

Harry stopped in the
chemo room today to say
thank you. 

However, this year we received bad news. Harry's prostate had hardened, enlarged, and was cancerous. He had high risk prostate cancer. Through the summer, Harry received 44 treatments of radiation. When we inquired to learn whether the treatments impacted the cancer, we were told we would have to wait until October to give the radiation time to work.

Today was the day when we received the results of the prostate cancer treatments. First Harry's PSA, the blood test that identifies as positive or negative for prostate cancer, did not reveal any cancer at all. I had to ask the doctor twice what she said. She repeated it again--no indication of cancer. God showed up.

The other news that we had not heard before and were not expecting is that Harry's latest CT scan, which was this month, did not reveal any cancer either. Even those quiet tumors were not there. The only thing that is visible on the scans is the aftermath of the cancer treatment he received. God showed out.

I know you are praising God with us. Thank you so much. We absolutely appreciate every prayer from each and everyone of you. But please don't stop, because Harry and I are still fighting small battles. Harry is continuing to receive hormone treatments to suppress his testosterone level. Testerone prevents the radiation from being effective, even two to three years following treatment. So, he will continue to receive hormone shots for awhile. As a result, Harry is experiencing male menopause, which are causing very hard hot flashes and depletes his energy. The doctor told him today that he can choose to forego the hormone treatments, but he would be not be helping the radiation to be effective. So, he has decided to fight through hot flashes to continue to do all that is possible to make sure the cancer is gone.

God has truly showed up and showed out in our lives.