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Wednesday, August 31, 2005
prayers, please
Those of you who pray, please lift up my mother-in-law, who is in her very early 50's and who was diagnosed last week with lung cancer. This week she had a PET scan and discovered that it has moved to one of her lymph nodes and is possibly in one of her kidneys. Prognosis is not great -- "a few months to a year" is what the specialists are saying right now -- and she goes in for chemo and then radiation early next week.
She's so young for this, and she quit smoking years ago. She's also not a believer, I don't think, and I know her husband isn't.
I certainly don't need anything else this week to put my minor problems in perspective.
Comments
Praying
Posted by: Maria at September 1, 2005 12:25 AM
Rachel, I'm so sorry to hear this. Of course she's in my prayers.
Posted by: mary at September 1, 2005 05:27 AM
How awful! I am praying! How are they taking it?
Posted by: debi at September 1, 2005 08:17 AM
I will be praying.
Posted by: Kat at September 1, 2005 09:44 AM
I'm sorry to hear this, please give T my love. That is awfully young. I have heard so many times of people who get cancer years after they've quit smoking. Unfortunately cigarettes are only one of a million causes of cancer and it can hit anyone. Her being a non-believer doesn't mean God won't have mercy on her. I know a lot of people who have no faith, yet the luck always seems to follow them. So think positively and have faith, you never know what might happen. (My aunt Dorothy proclaimed her disdain for God her whole life. She's told me on many occasion that she is going to hell. However, she is now 76 years old and has had some scary situations with her health that have brought on a new found faith we never thought she'd have. Sometimes it takes facing death to make people turn to God).
Posted by: jenn at September 3, 2005 02:41 PM
