Thanks Jonathan for posting for me...This has been a very trying day! I have been stuck to my cell phone all day..My niece in Lubbock has been updating me and texting me so fast I hardly have time to answer and pass the news along to the rest of my family!
So far, we now know that the cancer is in her white blood cells..there are no reports back from the heart and lung pathology yet...the pulminologist did tell them Sat that he feels sure she has stage 4 lung cancer he's almost positive...
Helen is in good spirits and wanting to go home..so they just want to keep her positive...I have been praying that God will give me words when I need them, and silence when that is best...I have been able to gently slip in truth to their sorrowing hearts...and I will say whatever God enables me to say. My sister's 3 daughters and I are very good friends, and I need to be able to look them in the eye and tell them that we have an awesome Father God no matter the outcome here!
I need strength, wisdom and love enough to help them through this time...so I ask God to keep me focused while grieving for my nieces, my brothers and sisters and that, if it is what I must do, I will be able to say good-bye to my sister in a way that will bring hope to all the rest of my family...
There is always hope in the Lord!
Kathy