Not everything goes to plan. Today’s test proved that to be true. If it were up to me, we wouldn’t be in this scenario we find ourselves in tonight, and if today’s test went to “plan”, then we would be done with cancer. Today’s results took nearly the entire day to get to us, from arriving at admissions at 7am, to finding out the results shortly after 7pm, it was a looooong day. And in this long day Nat and I played out nearly every scenario, and our faith filled hope was the scenario that we would hear the oncologist say “Murphy is clear of cancer…”
Instead; we got a phone call during dinner with the family where Murphy’s oncologist explained that he is still a Score of 1, the tumour in the Liver is still present and active cancer cells.
Insert sad face.
Sad face, not angry, not devastated, not even numb, just sad. The battle continues for our brave boy. Telling the other kids this news was hard, because we never want to discourage their faith in God, and they have been so constant in their faithful prayer for their little Brother.
There is still a positive side to this. God’s timing IS perfect, and in believing this in it’s entirety means God has ultimate control, as He’s all knowing. Nat and I get to watch and rest in the fact that God’s timing is always perfect and He’s not running late for His miracle healing of Murphy.
So, the good news is… the final tumour IS smaller. Praise God. We are dealing with something now; so small, surgery isn’t really the answer. To attack it surgically rather than with the remaining immunotherapy means we would possibly limit the chance to find any other microscopic tumour cells.
Thank you for your unending prayers. Please keep praying for the eradication of cancer in Murphy. Can you also pray for his siblings, and may they remain strong for their brother. My faith is stirred even more, because if this all happened according to our textbook as humans, where’s God’s chance to do His part?!
Murphy was set to start immunotherapy on Monday 20/11, but after today’s results the team have postponed this to work out exactly what these results mean for his kidneys, the remaining cancer and how best to move forward for Murphy.
Daniel
