Prayers for Diane (friend of Estepp)

Loving and praying for you Diana.  How did your zapper go Thursday?

Hi Moody ~ My zapper went well on Thursday, had a slight headache and was a little dizzy and so I called the dr. yesterday.  She told me that if I continued with the headache she would call in some deacadron (sp?) but after praying some more, I have felt fine since!  All day today I felt great!!!

Laura ~ you are so incredibly sweet, I am so looking forward to May!!!  Only 81 days!!!

I am too Deborah, thank you!

Diana, I hope you sleep well tonight~

Laura ~ I see your smiling face at work everyday! I keep it next to my computer, knowing we will all be fine, with perky boobs at 80!

I am going to copy/paste what I wrote on the herceptin group thread here for all you wonderful praying women!

My onc said that I am considered cancer free at this moment since they zapped my brain met but wants herceptin, tykerb, avastin and xeloda to be given as an insurance policy.  I will have the herceptin and avastin thru IV infusion every 3 weeks, xeloda I will be on for 2 weeks, off for 1 week, then we do this cycle for 6 rounds.  I will be on tykerb and the herceptin indefinitely. 

The onc said that I won't loose my hair, I might develop hand/foot syndrome and have diarriah (sp). I told him that I feel great and I am not going to give that up, I finally feel wonderful all the time, I am doing lots of wonderful things with the kids.  He said we will adjust if we need to.  I said ~ well I guess I will be seeing you forever!  His answer was "When we hit the 5 yr mark, we will just be friends" as upset as I am about this development, that statement made me feel wonderful.  After that I went to see my chemo nurse, I needed a hug and my husband was sitting there like a deer in headlights during the whole discussion.  I started to cry and told her that I didn't want to do chemo again, she said that she will be right with me and it won't be like it was last time.  

I feel completely blessed and trust in the Lord that this will be the end of my madness, I will have a testimony to share, more of the one I already have!

Diana - You are such a wonderful person and mother and wife. And I love your oncologist and your nurse. You deserve only the best my dear! We are all there with you! And I am w/ Sandy - I can't wait to see those 80 year old pictures on the picture forum! All the best!  - Jean

Praying you have little to no side effects with the new meds starting..
God Bless!

I went to church this morning (granted it was the later service since I forgot to change my clock even though I meant to!) and the message was about God's will and how we always feel like "we" need to be in control, that we need to understand that God knows all about us, our desires, our heartaches and what we think we want.  It was if something clicked and I understand!  I have been saying I understand, I could comprehend the notion but I 'get it' now.  In reflection, I thought back on the awesome scripture verse I found the other day, Deuteronomy 30: 19-20  ^"This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live and that you may love the LORD your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the LORD is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob."

As I sat in my seat and said, Lord ~ I choose life ~ I reflect on a book I am reading "Through the Fire and Through the Water" by Dr. Betty Price.  The story was about her battle with cancer and how she had wanted to just sit and let God heal her without modern medicine.  Then God put it on her heart to go thru chemotherapy and radiotherapy.  Dr. Price had to submit to God's will to heal her and that included recognizing what needed to be done.  I believe that although many can look at my life and say it is full of curses presently, I KNOW my God is blessing me with life, He knows I choose Life.   He knows I am scared of this new medication they have me taking but I feel in my heart that I needed this to fully submit to Him and understand just how worthy I am of His love. 

Without this time in my life, I wouldn't have realized how worthy I am of anyone's prayers.  I am so thankful that in this hard time in my life, I have had the opportunity to 'meet' such strong, brave, God driven women.  I am so thankful that I have the opportunity to actually meet face to face with Laura, a woman that has impressed me, has supported me and has become so dear to me.

Thank you for your prayers! Good night! 

Praying for you Diana.  Praying for miracles.  Any friend of Estepp's is a friend of mine.  God is good and he answers prayers and we have a lot of prayer warriors.  Sending gentle hugs to you and your family.  Sherry

Thoughts & Prayers for you Tomorrow Diana!

Pam

praying.... you beautiful girl!

Diana got GREAT results prayer warriors... CANCER cannot be found. The brain radiation 6 weeks back.. WORKED!!! GONE GONE GONE !!!!!!

Praise the Lord !

Now she can get back to those 4 kids of hers!

Thank you so much for your prayers.. God is so merciful!

Laura

wow it's great reading this great news.

Life is good : - )

thanks for sharing the good news Laura

Diana I hope you have a great weeekend

do something fun with the family

God is good and all powerful.  Such amazing news.