Please please keep Mrs. Schaefer and Philip Shama in your thoughts and prayers over the next few days, and possibly much longer than that.
Mrs. Schaefer is a very close family friend as our families have basically grown up together. Their youngest daughter is my age and their oldest is my sister's age. We carpooled together, grew up at church together, did ballet together, took piano together, sang in the choir together...you get the idea. Anyway, Mrs. Schaefer was diagnosed with uterine cancer and after enduring the terrible, yet life-saving beast known as chemo, she was told she was in remission. I saw her at church recently when I went home and I think it was her first day back singing in the choir. You could just see the joy and sheer happiness radiating from her as well as every face in the congregation that lit up when she made eye contact when them during the choir procession. I felt so privileged to know her, and to be a very small part of her victory lap up and down the isle that day.
Last Friday, doctors found a suspicious mass and performed a biopsy on it. Apparently the dr. basically said outright it was cancer, but they needed to get the results to be sure. Since then there has been some small hope that that initial thought may be wrong. She will find out for sure on Thursday, so please pray with all your might that the mass they found is not cancer, and if it does turn out to be cancer, please pray that she is able to fight this round and kick it in the tail with the same strength and grace she did the last time.
Philip was living it up last Wendesday at the Memorial Park Crits (bike race where lots of riders ride in tight packs around in circles very fast) when he had a bad, bad crash. He was initially checked out that night though and thought all was ok, and that he was just left with a very very stiff neck. By Sunday things looked worse and he found out early this morning he has a fractured c7. He is apparently heading into surgery tomorrow morning, so please keep him and his family in your prayers as well - pray for a successful surgery as well as a speedy recovery. You do not have to know him that well to know that he cannot sit still for long!
Mrs. Schaefer is a very close family friend as our families have basically grown up together. Their youngest daughter is my age and their oldest is my sister's age. We carpooled together, grew up at church together, did ballet together, took piano together, sang in the choir together...you get the idea. Anyway, Mrs. Schaefer was diagnosed with uterine cancer and after enduring the terrible, yet life-saving beast known as chemo, she was told she was in remission. I saw her at church recently when I went home and I think it was her first day back singing in the choir. You could just see the joy and sheer happiness radiating from her as well as every face in the congregation that lit up when she made eye contact when them during the choir procession. I felt so privileged to know her, and to be a very small part of her victory lap up and down the isle that day.
Last Friday, doctors found a suspicious mass and performed a biopsy on it. Apparently the dr. basically said outright it was cancer, but they needed to get the results to be sure. Since then there has been some small hope that that initial thought may be wrong. She will find out for sure on Thursday, so please pray with all your might that the mass they found is not cancer, and if it does turn out to be cancer, please pray that she is able to fight this round and kick it in the tail with the same strength and grace she did the last time.
Philip was living it up last Wendesday at the Memorial Park Crits (bike race where lots of riders ride in tight packs around in circles very fast) when he had a bad, bad crash. He was initially checked out that night though and thought all was ok, and that he was just left with a very very stiff neck. By Sunday things looked worse and he found out early this morning he has a fractured c7. He is apparently heading into surgery tomorrow morning, so please keep him and his family in your prayers as well - pray for a successful surgery as well as a speedy recovery. You do not have to know him that well to know that he cannot sit still for long!
Comments