Prayers wanted

The past 7 days have been whirlwind in our lives and I would like to ask all of you out there in blog land (whether we know you or not) to offer up some prayers on my parent's behalf. My father was diagnosed with prostate cancer last Friday. He underwent some additional scans this week to make sure the cancer has not spread. We will get those results on Monday. If it has not spread (for which we are very hopeful) then treatment seems fairly straight forward with a great prognosis. Yesterday, my mother was told she has breast cancer. This has completely devastated us and thrown us off our axii. How can this happen?! Both diagnosed with cancer within 7 days of each other? We are right in the mix of her work up and diagnosis and will hopefully know more information next week. We were told to show up for a biopsy today, but due to some very poor communication between physicians, there was no biopsy ever scheduled. Until she has the biopsy we will not know what we are dealing with; i hate the waiting game. This brief experience has made me so frustrated with adult health care. I have spent my career thus far working in pediatric health care and a little in oncology. There are always little glitches in communication, but it is so irritating to be told to show up on a Saturday morning for a biopsy only to find out the office is not even open and the on call physician has no idea about your identity. Adult health care has much to be desired.



Anyway, until we find out all our answers we could use your prayers. We have no idea what road(s) we will have to travel with both of these diagnoses and that is pretty scary. Even with all this going on, we have so much to be thankful for this next week. We have each other and a great support group outside of our families. Hopefully we will have more news (good news!) after this week!!