Prayer Notice & Brief Update 2/28/2012

an email Lariate sent 2/28/2012

Hello Friends and Family,

We’ve been working through nearly six months (March 10^th will be 6 months) of our intense cancer therapy. Times are busy, but we desire to join in community once again to pray our way through this journey the Lord has us on. If you cannot make it please join us in prayer wherever you are.

Everyone is invited to come for a time of prayer for Lariate and the Wiegel family! We will be meeting at the Bentley’s house.

Date: Saturday, March 3rd
Time: 9:30am

Here is a brief UPDATE:

I had more blood work done last Wednesday and the results should be here this week for us to consult with our doctors soon. This Friday afternoon, I have an ultrasound…the first “picture” so to speak since beginning therapy nearly six months ago. This ultrasound will be the same one I had done in August that revealed the “staging” of my cancer. If you remember, it revealed a T3 penetration, meaning the cancer was into the colon wall but not yet penetrated thru (which would be a T4). Anyway this will be the first “picturing” we will have since starting therapy. Upon the results we receive Friday and consulting with our team of doctors, we will decide upon which subsequent picture would be most beneficial (whether a colonoscopy or perhaps a PET scan of the body) to track this cancer.

Overall I am feeling well physically… overwhelmed at times…always running behind on therapy demands…scattered with the complexities of managing my therapy needs, being a wife, mother of three little ones, home upkeep, desire for stillness, longing to be set free from this binding regiment, praying for healing, o’ the list goes on. This isn’t the happiest of seasons in our life but we are trusting in a mighty God.

With the “long-haul” of therapy setting in we are asking for Friday’s appointment to bring us encouragement. We ask that this picture would reveal encouraging progress. Please pray for this.

Dhondi and I are weary. We need respite. We have discussed and are now looking into hiring some aspects of our complex needs so that the tensions we have been bearing for nearly six months may be better managed and bring some peace and rest to our home and marriage…we still have a year and a half to go and want to bear thru this well and remain connected and purposeful together as a family rather than frazzled, disconnected and tired. Please pray for this as well. Specifically for wisdom, workers, financial provision and rest.

With Grace,

Lariate (& Dhondi)