4/29/09 Connor Update

Sorry I am late on posting this. We were out of town for doc appointments in Houston when this update arrived:

Last night, I gave Connor his last dose of chemo. We are looking forward to a great week this week. PLEASE PRAY THAT HE WILL FEEL GREAT - NO NAUSEA AND NO TIREDNESS. ALSO, PRAY HE WILL GAIN SOME WEIGHT. He is looking so frail. He had the stomach virus last week and lost a couple more pounds. Ugghh!

His skin is having some issues - dry and flaky, also a couple new spots on his legs. Hopefully, this is a sign that the medicine is working. The bump on his upper abdomen is not any smaller; it's possibly the same size, maybe bigger??? It's so hard to tell if this is working.

WE REALLY WANT TO ASK FOR YOUR PRAYERS FOR OUR GUIDANCE. We don't know if we should continue on this route for another round or try something new. (We have about a week to figure this out.) Everything we try is just guesswork. It is so frustrating and scary, and every decision feels like life or death. I know that God is watching over Connor and He has a plan for him. I just want to be in the loop, so to speak.

There is so much pressure to hear correctly from Him. I am praying that God would open the right door and shut all the others.

Thanks for your prayers.
1. Great week of no nausea or tiredness for Connor
2. Gain weight and strength
3. Guidance for his treatment
4. Healing
5. Be a light to others

Here's a beautiful song by Shannon Wexelberg called "In the Waiting".

I've tried to be strong
Is there something I've done wrong?
'Cause I've been waiting here so long.
You see each tear
As the months have turned to years.
For some reason You must want me here.
But I can see You're breaking up my fallow ground
In this season of such barrenness,
Lord, I have found

(REFRAIN)
You are in the waiting
In that moment of my life
When my faith and hope collide.
While my heart's anticipating
Just how and when You'll move
That's when you prove
You are in the waiting, too.
So plant Your seed
Till it's living, Lord, in me.
Make me all You want me to be.

Unveil my eyes
If I've exchanged the truth for lies.
Give me faith so I can see
The work that you began
You will complete in me.
And I don't have to understand the place You're keeping me.

(BRIDGE)
You give me water in the desert.
You lift me up on eagles' wings.
And from way up high
I can see my life
From Your view of things.
And though I've cried for an answer
I believe that I can say:
"Thank You, Lord, for every answer
You've delayed.

Thanks, Lynn Rudning for that song.

Always believing,
Joy