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Update #4: January 6, 2022

 

Dear Family and Friends,

We continue to be thankful for your prayers, love, and concern for us during this unknown journey. The journey is unknown to us, but we trust in our known God. We know He is faithful.  We know He is good.  We know He has a plan.  We know He walks with us and before us.

The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; His mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness.  Lamentations 3:22-23

The Lord Himself goes before you and will be with you….Deuteronomy 31:8

I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you.  Isaiah 46:4

Today we received a phone call from the surgeon informing us that one of the two sentinel lymph nodes tested was clean, but that they did find cancer in the other one. We were also told that the cancerous tumor that was removed was much larger than initially diagnosed. This means we need to get back on the testing circuit to see to what, if any, further spread has taken place.  Next week brings four appointments including a nuclear bone scan on Monday, a post-op check-up Tuesday morning in Wausau, a CT scan in Antigo Tuesday afternoon, and then an appointment with the oncologist on Wednesday, who will then give direction for treatment.

To help ease communication, we’ve created a blog where we will post all future updates. Please feel free to check the blog and subscribe for notifications of new updates. Here is the blog address: https://lindawager.blogspot.com/

Thanks for praying, caring, encouraging, and serving. We look forward to seeing what God will do.

Linda and Dave

PS-If you do comment---please note your name---as the blog doesn't automatically capture some.  Thanks so much!

Comments

  1. UnknownJanuary 6, 2022 at 5:31 PM

    Continued prayers, Linda. God has you in his loving hands.

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  2. UnknownJanuary 6, 2022 at 7:27 PM

    Yes, I echo this...I will not stop praying Linda. God has this!!

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  3. Claudia BriceJanuary 6, 2022 at 7:30 PM

    Thank you for sharing your honest and hope-filled blog with us. You are brave and courageous. We are thankful you are in the hands of our saviour!

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  4. UnknownJanuary 9, 2022 at 9:02 AM

    Hi Linda and Dave, thank you for sharing your journey as you walk with the Lord through this. He will sustain you as you have stated. There is no better place to be than to be in His hands and He certainly has not only His hands but His arms around you. May God continue to give you, His peace. You are a well-loved child of the KING.

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