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Just thought I'd let you know that I just posted a bunch of pics to the family site. For those of you who received my parent's Christmas letter and are wondering where the adorable pics of Val are, you can either click on the site that says "Val's site" on this page, or go to www.fendleyfam.blogspot.com. There are pics from today in the snow and Thanksgiving and other random things.
I'm doing well...however I woke yesterday to a lovely case of pink eye. My dr. actually had an appt at a time I could go which was amazing to me. So I've got meds and am recovering...ah the fun little annoyances of life.
Oh...on a positive note, a friend of mine has been battling cancer (that's not the positive part). Anyway, she has been up to Mayo clinics a couple of times. When she was diagnosed here (and there the 1st time) she was given a 1 in a million chance of survival because of where the cancer was (in her liver, color, spine and I think bone). Anyway, they thought it was in her lungs here too, but a Mayo dr. thought it was something else and he turned out to be right. Here's the amazing part. In order for her to live, she needs to have surgery to remove part of her colon and the larger part of her liver. The only way to have that surgery is to have no cancer in any other part of her body. It's a true miracle because the other cancers have disappeared. She is the 1st person EVER at Mayo to be able to have this surgery after it was in her bones. This has never happened to anyone else...they have all been on chemo until they died. So now her chance of survival is 40 %...still not the best, but a far cry from where she was. She has 2 daughters...one 3 and the other is just a couple of months older than Val, so they play together at church all the time (they're usually the only 2 at first service). I had to share this amazing news because I'm so amazed at what God has done. I guess the Drs. at Mayo talk about her all the time and will probably be doing a clinic study on her because they can't believe that her cancers disappeared. I guess a big one in her liver just vanished as well. She is scheduled for surgery on Dec. 28 up at Mayo.
So that's life here.
I'm doing well...however I woke yesterday to a lovely case of pink eye. My dr. actually had an appt at a time I could go which was amazing to me. So I've got meds and am recovering...ah the fun little annoyances of life.
Oh...on a positive note, a friend of mine has been battling cancer (that's not the positive part). Anyway, she has been up to Mayo clinics a couple of times. When she was diagnosed here (and there the 1st time) she was given a 1 in a million chance of survival because of where the cancer was (in her liver, color, spine and I think bone). Anyway, they thought it was in her lungs here too, but a Mayo dr. thought it was something else and he turned out to be right. Here's the amazing part. In order for her to live, she needs to have surgery to remove part of her colon and the larger part of her liver. The only way to have that surgery is to have no cancer in any other part of her body. It's a true miracle because the other cancers have disappeared. She is the 1st person EVER at Mayo to be able to have this surgery after it was in her bones. This has never happened to anyone else...they have all been on chemo until they died. So now her chance of survival is 40 %...still not the best, but a far cry from where she was. She has 2 daughters...one 3 and the other is just a couple of months older than Val, so they play together at church all the time (they're usually the only 2 at first service). I had to share this amazing news because I'm so amazed at what God has done. I guess the Drs. at Mayo talk about her all the time and will probably be doing a clinic study on her because they can't believe that her cancers disappeared. I guess a big one in her liver just vanished as well. She is scheduled for surgery on Dec. 28 up at Mayo.
So that's life here.
impressed