Preliminary Diagnosis

  This picture was taken about 2 weeks ago, fog hanging around in the morning with blue sky above.

  The focus of my posts is going to shift over the next weeks as I want to blog about my new "journey".  I'm hoping some of you faithful readers, and maybe some new ones, will walk with me.

  After the CT last week, the preliminary diagnosis from my surgeon was that there is a mass in my pancreas, most likely cancerous. She offered that it doesn't appear to have spread and that we may have caught it early. She is referring me to a specialist at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center in Nashville, whom we will see next Tuesday, Nov. 26. I am so grateful that we are near a hospital with the credentials of Vandy and that I have been referred to a top notch specialist. I know that the road ahead will not be easy, whatever the final diagnosis and treatment, but I am so encouraged by a loving wife, children and grandchildren, sisters and bro-in-laws, cousins, church family, and friends of long standing as well as recent years, including blogging friends. It is impossible to know how many prayer lists I have been added to the past week; it is wide and far ranging and I am eternally grateful.

  I have so enjoyed this blog during this first year; even though the focus will change now for a time. It is my prayer that I will enjoy the birthdays of all 4 of my grandkids in January, February and March when they will turn 17, 14, 10 and 1. And that I will be planting new garden in the spring and enjoying the births of 5 new Angus babies in the next few months and blogging about it.

  "Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I entrust my life."   Psalm 143:8 NIV