Karen’s Update for September 18, 2015

“Do We Go or Do We Wait?”

First of all let me assure you that we are home safe and sound.

I’ll tell you about our adventure in just a moment. Today was a great day for us at the Cancer Center. I cannot begin to tell you how much we appreciate the wonderful doctors as our oncologists. They are not only very knowledgeable; but they are also very caring. The receptionists, the nurse in the clinical research department, the lab technicians, the nurses in the infusion center; everyone is such a blessing to us.

As we sat in our nurse’s office, the screen saver on her computer screen read, “This is what we were meant to do.” Karen and I both are so pleased to have this wonderful medical team working on her case. We realize that hers is no easy case. But everyone is doing everything possible. How blessed we are.

But most of all, we want to thank our precious family and friends for praying. We really sense your faithful prayers. We so appreciate your precious friendship. Thank you. Thank you. Please pray that the infusion will work mightily in fighting the mass in Karen’s lung. It was a huge blessing to hear our oncologist listen to her lung sounds and being pleased with what he hears. I know that our Lord is able. We just want to be in His will for what He has planned.

As Karen’s infusion was coming to a completion, several from the reception area came back to inform us that no one would be allowed to leave the University Hospital Seidman Cancer Center because Shaddon Road had been closed because of a gas line being struck as well a multiple car accident on Route 57. Word came back that the gas rupture was so large that we would have to wait four hours to get home.

Just as Karen finished, word came through out the facility that the Elyria police and fire department had opened a one way lane out of the Cancer Center. No one would be allowed in. Only those who could come right then could follow them through an alternative route to get out.

The thought hit me, “Do I want to take my Karen through a makeshift lane, nearer to the emergency or do I just want to wait until they open the street to traffic?” I decided that these emergency professionals certainly knew if it was safe or not. So we decided to go. Follow them. Do you know what? I didn’t ask one for their credentials. I didn’t ask one of them about their training? I didn’t ask one of them about their experience in handling such crises. I simply trusted them as I placed the safety of my precious wife in their hands.

That’s what trust and faith is. If I can trust these emergency officials none of whom I know, how much more can I trust the Lord Jesus, Whom I have known and loved for over fifty years. “What times I am afraid I will trust in You” (Psalm 56:3).