Passing on some encouraging words from the Doc

It's been a few weeks and I have had some encouraging news from my surgeon and my oncologist here and thought I would share! Sorry..it has taken me a bit to let you know...you know how life gets :)...anyways...I saw my surgeon a few weeks ago and he is real outgoing and stuff which I love and he says "WOW, I can't believe what a positive response you are having with the chemo" He said the tumors are still there but they really have gotten alot smaller :) and says I think we are really close to a mastectomy..I say...ok doc..listen..I don't want one saggy boob and one perky one for the rest of my life - that I am plannning on being long and he says I usually do not suggest double mastectomy but would for me - ha!!! REALLY that was all in fun (although he really said that ) BUT I will take a bald head and no boobs - since boobs are overrated :) forever if I can live :) I hope you got all that ...I know I kind of write in not right English - but I am thinking you are getting my jist- OH or I can just blame it on chemo brain :)! So then when I saw my oncologist this past week before my big cocktail he basically echoed what the surgeon said...he even had to refer back to his notes to be reminded of where all the tumors are...So they are there but they are shrinking - Praise the Lord - because whether I am healed supernaturally or by medicine we all know who is directing this entire thing of HEALING - OUR HEAVENLY FATHER- how AWESEOME!!!!!!! So my beloved is like ...when are we doing some tests to see if the tumors are shrinking on my liver and the doc says he does about 6 cycles so ...in the next few weeks we will be seeing if it is working on my liver and I am soooooooo praying that it is!!!!!!! I have not been scheduled for a brain scan yet and am waiting on Duke to contact me about that and some other things and will let you know ! Thank you soooo much for all your prayers and support ...God really is soooo good ALL the time and surrounds us with brothers and sisters in HIM all the time we just have to open our eyes and "see" it, you know!!!! You all, whether in big and/or small have helped in ways more than you can imagine...I have to say some days are so much harder than others as you ALL know this with things going on in your own lives...but I just want to share something... Lately, I have been struggling with "looking back" so to speak...you know thinking of a "before cancer" memory and kind of just dreaming in the moment that I was there and not sick and then I went to this women's conference at my church this past weekend and the speaker there shared a verse that I have heard many times but you know how God speaks to you when He's ready - Isaiah 43:18-19 "Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland." Isn't that AWESOME!!! I mean, I would have never thought ok my "new" life would be to be "hemmed in" with cancer ...at least, for now...BUT God doesn't say ok now it's time to stop living...no He says " a new thing" - pretty COOL!!!!!!!!! I mean no one wants to be sick or die or have someone die you love soooooo much, but He has promised to do a new thing and I am looking forward to it! :) So, I am a bit long-winded...I just wanted to share about my bald head and my little ones! In the beginning, remember Micah would always want me to wear a hat and/or scarf...well the other day I was asking him which hat or scarf to wear - decisions, decisions - lol and he says "Mommy, why can't you just go outside with your bald head?" :) Precious :) And I usually have a hat on with my sweet Carrington, and I put one on the other day and she just kept trying to pull it off! I guess, we are past that part huh...just a tidbit of ya ;) So, thank you all soo much for EVERYTHING in EVERYWAY!!!!!!!!!! In Him!!! Catherine :)