Billybob is FINE!

Oh, I'm a horrible blogstress! I forgot Sunday AGAIN! It was because we were having TOO MUCH FUN with a visitor who stopped over and made us laugh a LOT and who brought us handwritten letters from the children in Uganda who/whom we are sending to school for a second year, since the last time we helped with it, we went into such an ecstatic state that we thought someone had slipped us a mickey! (Wow. I have been listening to too many of Bill's 1940s radio shows on the computer, that I would be familiar with the phrase "slipped us a mickey.")

Okay, now de-convoluting the above paragraph, what was I saying?

Oh, yeah.

Bill is doing very well!

He is better each day, stronger, fewer weird symptoms. His nausea is almost gone, for example.

On Thursday of last week, he got a blood test, and his magnesium had flown the coop, so he got hooked up to an IV for a big drip of that. This coming Wednesday (in two days), he gets another test and will meet with the Boone Oncologist for the last time this summer! Kind of a celebrational moment.

We thought we knew when his scan would be, but now we don't know. So we are trying not to think about that scan.

However, we did get some good news via Google research, that fewer than three percent of people with bladder cancer as severe as Bill's (especially having spread to the liver) EVER achieve remission! So the fact that he is in remission right now is certainly something of a miracle! I actually think the stats were worse than "three percent," but I don't wanna freak Bill out when he reads this. The actual text was more like, "It is generally impossible to achieve remission after bladder cancer has spread to a distant organ such as the liver or lungs." But, the reality is, that makes the greatness of his remission that much greater!

We are grateful, and I'm thanking the Author of the Storyline for this undeserved blessing, and this summer!

Thank you for the prayers you sent up. Certainly looks like they registered! Actually, I don't know how to draw the connection between prayers and answered prayers, as it seems rude to gloat when some prayers appear to be answered and some don't seem to be, so rather than sound like I'm into the Gospel of Prosperity, which I ain't!!!!, I am wording this carefully. I do believe that ALL good things come from God, but that some things don't look "good" when you first open the package. Yet the message of the Resurrection is that we don't know how it all turns out till later, and we're given a message that we WILL like the ending...which happens on the other side...and is going to be as big of a surprise as, oh, I don't know, say......someone rising from the dead?

Thank you, God...