Update on our friend, more prayer requests

Several weeks ago I asked for prayer for a friend of ours who has cancer. Here is an update and things to pray for.

The family found out that the cancer has as of now not spread to any other areas in the his (the father is the one who has the cancer) body. That is a great answer to prayer. The doctors have narrowed down the possible cancers to two. One responds well to chemotherapy and the other doesn't. You could pray that the cancer in his shin bone would be one that responds well to cancer.

Pray also for his general health. He has started chemotherapy and it will last many months. They are having to give him several different types to target the two different possible types and any rogue cancer cells that are traveling throughout his body. You know that the chemo is working if your white blood cell count drops to almost nothing. His count has dropped which is good because that means the chemo is doing its job. The downside to all of this is that his immune system (uses white blood cells) is not functioning very well. Pray that God would keep his body free from other infections that wouldn't normally be a problem but now are due to the weakened immune system.

Also, he has to receive two doses of a lethal injection of chemo. This pretty much is how is sounds. He is given the chemo and within 24 hours must receive an injection or he will die. I don't much about it but I'm assuming they give you this huge dose of chemo that is so strong it will kill you it you don't neutralize it within 24 hours. This is obviously something that could cause great anxiety so pray that he and his wife would have peace during those two time periods.

Continue to pray for the family as a whole, their lives have changed quite a bit during this time. Pray that the wife would continue to have strength in Jesus as she takes care of the family.

They continue to trust in God and that has been a huge example to those of us at church. God's ways are good and they are certainly trusting in that.