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In 2007, I began my original website, Sonshine's Haven. In 2007, it was turned into a blog and used to keep family updated on my first husband's fight with liver cancer. He passed away November of 2009. We were married for 34+ wonderful years and this journals some of that grief process I've gone through.

I have since remarried another widower, but Mike is missed dearly, and will always be a big part of my life.

At times, all of us will be called to act as witnesses to the suffering of another. We will be unable to affect the outcome physically. Words will fail us. Prayer will seem futile. And yet, the act of bearing witness to someone else's trials is a sacred sorrow that offers and astounding glimpse of eternal joy." by Ginger Garrett

"Being willing to stay with a loved one throughout their travail, can be difficult....YES! But offering yourselves as faithful companions on a dark and dreadful journey can be an unmeasured blessing." (paraphrased by me)

10.07.2008

A Long Day

Just returned to my room this evening. Mike's MRA test was extremely late tonight, not returning him to his hospital room until 10 p.m. They were suppose to get him at 6:30 p.m. and things kept sliding all evening because they were busy.

Mike felt much better today. His stomach was settled and he was able to get up more easily. He seemed ready to go home, if it hadn't been that his MRA test was scheduled for 7 p.m. The cardiologists agreed with the surgeons that another day in the hospital would do Mike no harm. So I'm expecting Mike to be discharged tomorrow. His incision still seems to have a little redness surrounding it, but they continue to give him antibiotics to help with that.

Tonight's test will help the cardiologists finalize how they want to handle Mike's heart issues. All day his blood pressure has been around 120/70. But his heartrate has gone up too...between 102-104 beats per minute. I wish there would be something they could do to bring these levels closer to their goal. They have begun giving Mike an asprin a day but I don't know if that will be the only suggestion. We may know more tomorrow.

We still have no information when Mike will meet with the radiologists to redo his biliary tubes. There is a part of us, that would just like to forget about them for now so we could return home. But Mike has a hope that these radiologists here, might do them differently, and make them less uncomfortable. Yet, that would mean we would need to come back to Houston every 2-3 months to have them redone. It is difficult making these kind of decisions, to make a commitment to a medical group 8 hours away.

On Thursday, we will be meeting with a new oncologist here, to discuss any options we may have. We would really appreciate your prayers for this appointment in particular. We're unsure if they will recommend us to see anyone about radiation therapy.

Mike and I are really trying to sort out how we need to proceed once we leave MD Anderson. Our plate is overflowing with so many challenges, medical and otherwise, that we're quite overwhelmed trying to figure out what we need to do. Please pray that we will have the wisdom necessary to make good decisions.

Thank you again for your prayers and support.

"Call unto Me, and I will answer thee, and show you great and mighty things, which thou knowest not." Jeremiah 33:3
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