Change Of Plans And A Prayer Request

If you've been reading my blog for the past few weeks you've probably picked up on the fact that I've been having a rough go of it. I've already talked about the fact that a mom and her daughter from our church were killed in an accident at the end of January and that has definitely been a part of it. Here's some of the other part...

On Christmas Eve my mom told us that tests showed that there was an... "area of concern," I'll call it... in her body. Since then she has undergone a few different tests, and is meeting with a surgeon. The good news is that no one can say, "It's cancer." The bad news is that no one can say, "It's not cancer." They don't know what it is. A lot of the tests are inconclusive and this morning she is undergoing yet another test.

Except, this morning we were supposed to be waking up in Hawaii with my mom and dad on the third day of our March Break trip. We had all held out hope that she would get some answers and we would still be able to take this trip (her surgeon included). But three weeks ago, the surgeon told her, "You have to cancel your trip." So we did.

This is what my countdown looked like when I deleted it:

Let me tell you, it is not near as much fun to cancel a trip as it is to plan it :(

 

Dave, Sam, Rachel, and I spent a few days brainstorming different travel options (an all inclusive to somewhere warm, flying to visit my parents, a trip to Australia, a trip to Iceland, etc) before we decided that a) it was pretty near impossible to plan a trip in three weeks that we were all excited about and b) we didn't want to travel just to travel. So we've decided to have fun (I hope) doing things locally instead.

 

Honestly, some of my tears have been about the impossible amounts of snow we've received the past three weeks and the fact that I was... this close... to being on a beach in the sun in one of my bucket list destinations. But most of my tears have been about "What on earth is going on with my mom?" Being in limbo for over two months has been really hard.

So please pray that the test my mom is having today gives us some answers and please pray that the answer is "It's not cancer." Because I would cancel a hundred trips to Hawaii to hear those words.

*the details about my mom are published with her permission

 

*Last week, in trying to schedule this post, I accidentally published it and a couple of you saw it. Thank you for the kind comments you left while it was up for a few hours.