An Update

I had grand plans to blog for quite some time now about the beautiful cello that my dear hubby rented for me and the cute picture of the boys trying to figure out how our new toaster worked since they had never seen a toaster before but life throws us curves sometimes and we just received our curve this week so now I am blogging to ask for prayer and also just to have a way to keep family and friends updated....

On Monday DH had an MRI for some back pain which was thought to possible be a herniated disk but it in fact revealed a spinal tumor. It is attached or seems to be attached to the spinal cord and there is no way to see if it is cancerous until the doctors get in there. It is not going to be an easy surgery but it is one that needs to be done right away before there is any loss of function. So far the doctors have been surprised that there hasn't been more nerve loss, for which we praise the Lord. We have met with a surgeon at a prominent hospital here in Portland but we just didn't feel comfortable with the surgeon there. So right now we are scheduled to see a new surgeon at a different hospital on Friday with a possible surgery date of Tuesday, Feb. 25th. We will know more after we meet with him. We have also considered traveling to St. Louis to have it done since they are ranked 9th in the nation for this type of thing but we are waiting and praying to see where the best place is.

So far we can definitely see the Lord's hand in it all and look forward to sharing with you how He is working and we pray that we will be faithful to give Him the praise and glory for all that He is doing, in the good and the not so good.

Maybe in the near future I can post a picture of my beautiful cello!