prayer request

I know I have a lot of friends who are good at praying, so I have a prayer request.

Today I called my mom and I knew she sounded "off". I asked what was wrong. She was obviously attempting to hide something. Then I remembered that last week she had had a mole on her leg biopsied. I asked if she got the results back. Bingo. Apparently she has melanoma, which if you don't know about it, feel free to read here. They ran some blood work and did a chest x-ray and she will be seeing a specialist on Tuesday for them to test (I believe) her liver and lymph nodes. I hope to be back soon with good news and hopefully they caught this very early!

I did ask permission from my mom first to post this, as she hasn't told people yet, and she did say it was okay because none of her friends or anything obviously read my blog. Mom, if I did get any of this information wrong, please let me know and I'll correct it. Obviously I was sort of in a state of shock when the information came.

The good news is that her therapists (yes, she's still in therapy for her knee, and making slow but steady progress) that she could come here for the weekend! She had booked a flight months ago when Spirit had some really cheap fares, but up until now she wasn't sure she'd be able to come being that she has to be strapped to a CPM machine (to help bend her knee continually) for many hours a day. Well, looks like she's coming. I think it will be a nice break for us all!