An update:  My aunt happens to be the head of the imaging center (think MRI’s & CAT Scans, etc) at the local hospital and she personally attended to the bone scan my dad had, and got the doctor who read the MRI to call her at 7:00 am on Friday to get the results.  Both results came back negative, meaning the cancer is localized to the prostate.  They’ll be scheduling an appointment with the surgeon Monday, July 28.  They do this robotic surgery that sounds really cool!

Thanks for your prayers!

I talked to my mom this afternoon.  My dad went back to the urologist to get the results from the biopsy on his prostate.  We were hoping for good news as the doctor looked over the samples after taking them and didn’t see anything suspicious.  But alas, word came today that my dad does indeed have prostate cancer.  He is scheduled for an MRI on Thursday and a bone scan on Friday to see if it has spread.  We’ll know the results on August 1, and that is when surgery would be scheduled.  They think they have it in the early stages.

The hardest part of all this is that I am an only child and I am 12 hours from my parents.  I was also 12 hours away when my mom dealt with breast cancer 11 years ago. I have put them both in God’s hands.

Thank you for your continued prayers.

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