Thursday, August 6th

Hello everybody....it is Julie. I just want to take a moment to say how grateful I am to have such a support team behind me. Your prayers, calls, emails and cards have been overwhelming. I am sure you have all heard the pathology report came back with a very gloomy prognosis. It is the colon cancer and it has come back in a different area outside the bowel. My surgeon is saying we are going back to the oncologist for more aggressive chemo. They do not expect it to kill the cancer but simply buy some time. We don't know for sure until we meet with Dr. Lynch, the oncologist, on Monday (8/10). We also have set an appt with Cancer Treatment Centers of America on Wednesday, August 12th. I have been on the phone with them most of the day today and they are a lot more hopeful than my current doctors. So we are in the process of getting all my records sent over for them to review by Tuesday. Dr. Pollock, with CTCA, will be ready to meet and discuss options on Wednesday. I cannot begin any kind of treatment until my surgeon releases my later this month. But we want to have our ducks in a row so we can get right down to the fight. This will be a much tougher road than the first round but we kicked cancer once and we'll do it again!

My prayer request is that my faith would be strengthened through this...I have really had a hard time the past 24 hours. Being told the gloomy path report and hearing what doctors think but trying to hold on to God's promise of healing has been a challenge to say the least. But I know that God is greater that cancer. He says "Greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world". So I'm standing on the promise that God will not leave me and only wants the best for me. If we are going through this battle it is His plan and we will go through it together.

I thank God for each of you and your willingness to stand in the gap for me. Together we are going to see the awesome hand of God move and we will all be better for it. Please feel free to call or email anytime. You can reach us at the house (918) 371-2367 or email at: julieandgerald@gmail.com. Talk to you soon.

Because of Christ,
Julie