My Own Christmas Miracle

No, I'm sooooo not pregnant. Just getting that out of the way. ;)

My miracle is really someone else's miracle...I just have the pleasure and joy of sharing in it. My family got the most AMAZING news yesterday. Are you ready for this?

MY PAPAW DOES NOT HAVE CANCER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

Yes, you read that correctly. According to the doctors, there was a mistake somewhere along the path (which should make me furious for all the grief it's caused but I just can't think about that right now...I'm too happy right now to care!) and after another opinion , further testing and a biopsy, the growing spots on his lungs are in fact, not cancer at all. They're abscesses from pneumonia that he had ages ago and thought was completely gone. While that's not particularly great, it's absolutely curable and totally survivable!

So now, instead of spending the next 6 weeks worrying and grieving and trying to capture every minute, he'll have some trips to get IV antibiotics (as well as the oral type), will go about everyday life...and we'll still try to capture every moment. No more taking anything for granted! :)

The doctors can say what they will...and I know that mistakes do happen...but I believe with all my heart that God heard our cries and the prayers of so many faithful friends (like you!) and answered us with our own kind of miracle. Thank you, Lord!

It's a Merry, Merry Christmas indeed, friends...a Merry, Merry Christmas!