Suzanne is over the hump and halfway through her clinical trial. Things continue to be pretty routine when it comes to her treatment; blood work, wait two hours, treatment, and head for home.

Of course, this week had to be different. As I shared before, Suzanne’s thyroid is not doing well through all this. The original radiation & chemotherapy did a number on it, and now, the trial drug Keytruda (that we aren’t supposed to know she is getting) seems to be doing the knockout punch. So this week, a sonogram of her thyroid was scheduled. Well, that’s not quite right, we were told to go get a sonogram as a walk-in as the schedule was full for Wednesday and it was expected to easily be done in the two-hour wait before her treatment. It turned out that this day was exceptionally busy for walk-ins and Suzanne was number nine on the list. Asking how long that might take, the attendant said “who knows, 2 to 3 hours?”

So we set in the waiting room; One hour went by, then two, and I knew she was about to be called by infusion for her treatment so I asked the attendant where we were on the list now and what would happen if she was gone when her name was called. “There are three ahead of you and we don’t hold places”. I quickly got on the phone with our PATHway nurse and she came down to talk with the powers that be and appeared to work it out.

Off to infusion we went and in the middle of her treatment of course the phone rang from the sonogram department that her number was up. I explained that we had about fifteen minutes left and would be down.

When we ran into imaging, nurse in tow, the attendant said he would work us in next. He hustled us off to another waiting room where we didn’t see another individual for twenty minutes. Have you ever seen that movie where everyone leaves the building and the unsuspecting victim comes out of the room to find everyone gone? That’s how we felt.

Well, the sonogram did take place and the results were posted in Suzanne’s file on Friday. There is good, and bad in being able to see test results before you hear from the doctor, and this is one of those times. That being said, we are still concerned about her thyroid, what we as nondoctors read in the report, and what is yet to come. But God has been good to us in this journey so far, now all we can do is put that trust back on him to figure this one out.

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding

Proverbs 3:5

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