I wanted to give an update on my mom. Thank you for your continuing love and support. This is an email that I sent last week:
Friends and Family,
I hope that you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving with your families and are already enjoying the Christmas season. Kyle and I enjoyed time with both sides of our families and feel extremely blessed by our time together.
For those of you who don't know, my mom was diagnosed with endometrial cancer at the beginning of November. Since that time, we have met with a wonderful team of doctors and have received nothing but top rate care. At our first meeting with the Oncologist in Sherman, he congratulated her for getting the "best kind of cancer." (oxymoron, right?) Endometrial cancer is usually surgically curable and has one of the best survival rates. From what we can tell on the CT scans, the cancer has not spread and is contained in the uterus. She was referred to a Gynecological Oncologist at Baylor Hospital in Dallas. We met with her a few weeks ago and, like the other doctors, she feels very confident that the cancer will be cured with a full hysterectomy. If further treatment is needed, it would be preventative radiation therapy. She will be having a robotic surgery this Tuesday, December 6 in Dallas.
I am sending this email asking for your prayers. I am so thankful to have each of you in my life and wanted to inform you of my mom's status. My mom, like always, is very positive and knows that there is a valuable lesson to be learned by this trial. Even with a positive prognosis, there are very real fears that creep into our minds. We know that the Lord is with us and is the only one that can calm those fears and anxiety. During trials like these, I am so thankful for my faith. The Lord promises us that He will never leave us nor forsake us and we can stand firm on that promise. Thank you so much for keeping my mom in your hearts and prayers.
I find it so fitting that Clay is memorizing Psalm 139 in preschool. It so conforting to hear his sweet little voice say "O Lord, you've searced me and you know me..." and "You knit me togeher in my mother's womb..." What a comfort and peace.
Thank you for being a sweet friend to me and my family.
With much love and thankfulness,
Ashley
1 You have searched me, LORD,
and you know me.
2 You know when I sit and when I rise;
you perceive my thoughts from afar.
3 You discern my going out and my lying down;
you are familiar with all my ways.
4 Before a word is on my tongue
you, LORD, know it completely.
5 You hem me in behind and before,
and you lay your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
too lofty for me to attain. 7 Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?
8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
if I settle on the far side of the sea,
10 even there your hand will guide me,
your right hand will hold me fast.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me
and the light become night around me,”
12 even the darkness will not be dark to you;
the night will shine like the day,
for darkness is as light to you. 13 For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place,
when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed body;
all the days ordained for me were written in your book
before one of them came to be.
17 How precious to me are your thoughts,[a] God!
How vast is the sum of them!
18 Were I to count them,
they would outnumber the grains of sand—
when I awake, I am still with you.
19 If only you, God, would slay the wicked!
Away from me, you who are bloodthirsty!
20 They speak of you with evil intent;
your adversaries misuse your name.
21 Do I not hate those who hate you, LORD,
and abhor those who are in rebellion against you?
22 I have nothing but hatred for them;
I count them my enemies.
23 Search me, God, and know my heart;
test me and know my anxious thoughts.
24 See if there is any offensive way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting.
I hope that you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving with your families and are already enjoying the Christmas season. Kyle and I enjoyed time with both sides of our families and feel extremely blessed by our time together.
For those of you who don't know, my mom was diagnosed with endometrial cancer at the beginning of November. Since that time, we have met with a wonderful team of doctors and have received nothing but top rate care. At our first meeting with the Oncologist in Sherman, he congratulated her for getting the "best kind of cancer." (oxymoron, right?) Endometrial cancer is usually surgically curable and has one of the best survival rates. From what we can tell on the CT scans, the cancer has not spread and is contained in the uterus. She was referred to a Gynecological Oncologist at Baylor Hospital in Dallas. We met with her a few weeks ago and, like the other doctors, she feels very confident that the cancer will be cured with a full hysterectomy. If further treatment is needed, it would be preventative radiation therapy. She will be having a robotic surgery this Tuesday, December 6 in Dallas.
I am sending this email asking for your prayers. I am so thankful to have each of you in my life and wanted to inform you of my mom's status. My mom, like always, is very positive and knows that there is a valuable lesson to be learned by this trial. Even with a positive prognosis, there are very real fears that creep into our minds. We know that the Lord is with us and is the only one that can calm those fears and anxiety. During trials like these, I am so thankful for my faith. The Lord promises us that He will never leave us nor forsake us and we can stand firm on that promise. Thank you so much for keeping my mom in your hearts and prayers.
I find it so fitting that Clay is memorizing Psalm 139 in preschool. It so conforting to hear his sweet little voice say "O Lord, you've searced me and you know me..." and "You knit me togeher in my mother's womb..." What a comfort and peace.
Thank you for being a sweet friend to me and my family.
With much love and thankfulness,
Ashley
Psalm 139
For the director of music. Of David. A psalm.1 You have searched me, LORD,
and you know me.
2 You know when I sit and when I rise;
you perceive my thoughts from afar.
3 You discern my going out and my lying down;
you are familiar with all my ways.
4 Before a word is on my tongue
you, LORD, know it completely.
5 You hem me in behind and before,
and you lay your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
too lofty for me to attain. 7 Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?
8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
if I settle on the far side of the sea,
10 even there your hand will guide me,
your right hand will hold me fast.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me
and the light become night around me,”
12 even the darkness will not be dark to you;
the night will shine like the day,
for darkness is as light to you. 13 For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place,
when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed body;
all the days ordained for me were written in your book
before one of them came to be.
17 How precious to me are your thoughts,[a] God!
How vast is the sum of them!
18 Were I to count them,
they would outnumber the grains of sand—
when I awake, I am still with you.
19 If only you, God, would slay the wicked!
Away from me, you who are bloodthirsty!
20 They speak of you with evil intent;
your adversaries misuse your name.
21 Do I not hate those who hate you, LORD,
and abhor those who are in rebellion against you?
22 I have nothing but hatred for them;
I count them my enemies.
23 Search me, God, and know my heart;
test me and know my anxious thoughts.
24 See if there is any offensive way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting.
0 comments:
Post a Comment