Another biopsy

On Friday my new transplant doctor called and said he wanted to schedule me for a bronchoscopy to look at a spot in my upper left lung that showed up as a "hot spot" on my PET scan last Monday. He's not sure if it's cancer, a current infection, a recent infection that's still dying off, or even scar tissue, so he wants to go down and "snag a piece to study" - sounds easy for him! Actually, it's a rather minor procedure - in and out the same day, but he does want to have it done at Dartmouth, so we'll be driving down to NH on Wed. for the biopsy to be done on Thu., and hope to return on Fri. or Sat. Since we have not heard anything from the backup donors this past week, in all likelihood, any transplant proceedings will not happen until at least the week of Jan. 21 at the earliest. This will, of course, be impacted by the findings of the biopsy, as well as by "work-up progress" by the 2 backup donors who are now "competing" to become the primary donor.

Here's how you can best pray with us right now:
1) That the bronchoscopy would be smooth, and that the findings would allow the transplant to proceed ASAP.
2) That workups on the 2 "backup" donors would happen in a speedy manner, and that one of them would prove to be just as good a match as the initial donor.
3) Pray for the initial donor, who is probably dealing with some rather weighty medical news that he most likely had no clue about. We'll never know who he is or what the problem was the prevented him from donating, but God does! Pray that any treatment for him will quickly remedy his new medical condition.
4) That we would continue to live in the midst of God's peace, love, and grace through these roller coasters and "change of plans".