Celebrating Answered Prayers!

Hey Family & Friends. . . thanks for checking in today. We wanted to share some great news with everyone about an answer to our prayers for mom. Back in February mom had a routine blood test and when the results came back with some abnormal readings they sent us to Doctor Jones, an oncologist/hematologist for a second opinion. We went to see him about 2 weeks ago and he felt that her readings were pointing him to a diagnosis of CLL (Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia). So they did a more thorough test - a flow cytometry test and we just got the results back today - her blood does not show any sign of the disease afterall and they were pretty much normal. This is an answer to our prayers. . . we believe with all our hearts God heard our prayers. Because she does have the lymphocytosis (elevated lymphocytes) they will be watching her for other infections and will retest her in April to make sure the test results stay normal, but for right now, my mom and dad are celebrating answered prayers. We didn't post the information earlier because dad was full of faith believing that this second blood test would come back in our favor - he was right. He didn't want to put it out there that mom might be sick until we knew for sure - I know some folks may have heard about it "thru the grapevine" but please know that if you didn't know about the blood tests, it was just that dad and mom chose to keep it under wraps for the most part until we knew what we were up against! Needless to say my daddy was very upset when we first got back from Dr. Jones' office with the initial news of what he thought it was. . . but now he is one happy man! Mom couldn't be feeling any better - she worked out at the Wellness Center 4 times this week and has been really doing well - so this news was so confusing to us when we received it. We'll keep you posted on the next appointment and those test results as well. . .but for now, we are just thanking our God for this wonderful news today!