One year ago today, at the time that I write this post, they were just finishing up my 7 hr cancer resection surgery (for those who don’t know I was diagnosed with a rare deadly cancer the day before Thanksgiving 2009
called, Desmoplastic Small Cell Round Tumor Sarcoma — I received a total of 9 cycles of the hardest core chemo you can get and the surgery). They successfully removed my tumor (with clean margins), my right kidney, and reconstructed (with gortex) a 3 inch section of my inferior vena cava (large water-hose vein that feeds from the lower extremities). Once they finished my surgery I was taken to ICU for the following 2 days, and then moved to my all familiar cancer ward room to recover a few more days before being released to go home. Praise The LORD!!! I just had my 3rd (post-surgery/chemo) CT-scan last week, and I continue to be cancer-free; and just today I had another follow up Echo-Cardio-Gram, and my heart is functioning at peak 100% performance (one of the chemo drugs did some damage to my heart). So I am completely healthy and cancer free, from a cancer that only has a 15% survival rate (of course we don’t serve a God of the statistics!). I just wanted to acknowledge this great day in our lives, and, again, thank all of you who supported us and prayed us through that HELL! God is good, all the time . . . and all the time God is good! Here is one of the verses the Lord gave me the day I found out I had a mass, and with this I close:

When he heard this, Jesus said, “This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for God’s glory so that God’s Son may be glorified through it.” ~John 11:4

PRAISE THE LORD!!! Below are three pictures of me (the 1st is a picture of me on my first day of chemo [early Dec. 2009] in the hospital [little did I know the hell that awaited], the 2nd is immediately following the surgery [May 6th 2010], I haven’t even come to yet; and the 3rd is me in ICU [May 7th 2010], the first thing I requested was my Bible 🙂 ):