Well, yesterday we met my daughter, grandson and son-in-law at Duke Medical Brain Tumor Center in NC. Jessica is 22 and last year she had a HUGE tumor removed from her brain. She has been on chemo for a year and she received all the radiation she was allowed to get.
When she was diagnosed last year we all jokingly said that we were going to have a lemon tattooed on the right side of our heads because they kept saying her tumor was the size of a lemon. The tumor became known as "the lemon". Have you ever seen a fresh lemon in the store? They are HUGE! And Jessica's head is soooo small. Well, yesterday, Dr. V told us that that "lemon" is gone!! There could still be microscopic cells - of course. He pulled up the old MRI - which she has posted on FB - and he said, "Hmmm, lemon? Looks more like a grapefruit to me. That thing was huge!". What a blessing! I praise God for all he has done. There will still be MRI's every 2 months for the next 6 months and then every 4 months for a while. But they fully expect her to be around and kicking for the next 60 years.
I wish I had known about blogging when all of this started. It would be interesting to see what I would have written then. I still remember how I felt. And maybe I will blog about that sometime. At the time I think it was all I could do to get from minute to minute without breaking down. If you have ever seen your child - grown or not - on a vent then you know what I mean. So thankful for my Lord because He was right there with us.
