January 23, 2008

The pictures from our last post were taken fairly recently. Leah is getting a lot bigger/older, and so are her sisters.

Just a quick update: we have our AFP draw scheduled for next Thursday, January 31, and we continue to pray for a very normal, routine, boring checkup and a very low AFP number. One would think that going back for checkups would get easier over time, but so far I haven't felt any more at ease. The fear of going back and living in the cancer world is horrible. And what is worse is knowing you have no control over this at all.

We had a great Christmas and continue to enjoy going to school and work and participating in all the regular day to day things: making supper, reading bedtime stories, going to story hour at the library, trips to Target, attending midweek at church, getting together with friends....

We ask that you pray for Hannah who has relapsed with Ewings Sarcoma just yesterday and is already undergoing surgery today to remove the tumor in her lung and have a port placed this morning. She has been in remission for eighteen months.....back in the swing of a normal, ten year old girl's life...and a tumor was found during a routine CT scan. It seems that no one is ever done with this disease. (www.caringbridge.org/visit/hannahknudsen)

I will update more after Leahs' appointment next week, and ask that you continue to pray for her healing here on earth.