We just got off the phone with the receptionist at the cancer center. She said the oncologist looked at the scan and she didn't find anything to suggest further signs of cancer. She will still meet with him on Wednesday, but at least we don't have to wonder all weekend. We gave each other a smiling kiss and then Roland immediately went out the back door to the yard. He came back in with a perfect peach from our tree. He has been nurturing the two fruits the little tree produced this year carefully and daily (Farmer Brown?). He said it is not quite soft enough to eat, but he will let it finish ripening inside, safe from predators and we will eat it together in celebration of his new life.
Bonus: He feels like his leg swelling is subsiding a little.
Yesterday we had a scripture delivered to our house accompanied by a delicious casserole: Doctrine and Covenants 86:88 We were really trying our hardest to be patient with not knowing the news of the scan, so both were much appreciated.
"I will be on your right hand and on your left, and my Spirit shall be in your hearts, and mine angels round about you, to bear you up."
We are feeling so happy right now.
Happy, happy, happy news! Congratulations! Way to make it through adversity with style, grace and faith. Here's praying that it doesn't take too long to feel completely healthy again!
ReplyDeleteAnd praying that those pesky cells don't come back! Ever!
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ReplyDeleteShauna, Thanks for keeping this blog. It's been a blessing for me, and I know for others, as we lent our hearts and prayers to your and Roland's latest adventure.
ReplyDeleteEvery prophet and even Christ went through their own "mists of darkness," and even though we may not have accompanied them, vicariously we grow in faith with them as we read and consider their stories.
We see marvelous miracles in the scriptures but sometimes forget to look back a little in the story. The miracles are almost always preceded by some major mists of darkness and stout expressions of faith all along the way.
There are stories of those who get lost in the fog and of those who hold the rod. Those who endure, rod in hand, come out into the light having lost a little of their old selves and having recovered a little more of that great spirit who they were before the Fall but with some additional wisdom. They walk out into the light different than when they started, which is a miracle that dwarfs all the Red Sea partings famine-ending rains.
Roland appears to be healed, what a miracle!
The other miracle is the personal growth you and Roland have been given by Heavenly Father as a gift for your faithful endurance. That miracle would have been won regardless of the physical outcome. I saw that victory in every blog post. Your and Roland's example of enduring to the end righteously is profoundly inspiring, and may be the greater miracle.
Even vicariously, I've come away different from this story. Largely because I've observed a new standard of graciousness and class in the face of tribulation, and I'll won't forget it.
JJ