Wait and watch.
Watch and wait.
This is the least favorite part for my own heart, and yet my most favorite part for the sake of Chase’s heart and body too. Because for every month that goes by watching, it is one less month that Chase gets put into procedures, surgeries, and more tests.
So we will wait and watch the mole grow on his back for now – the other moles and freckles grow on other parts of his oh so fair skin for now.
No skin cancer today.
We will take it today.
And as I sat in the rain on the highway under the gray sky with Chase near asleep in the back seat, I called Bob and told him the news and he responded: “Does this mean we’re officially back to only one active cancer now?”
And for now, dear ones, I think it does mean exactly that. Chase’s thyroid cancer was sitting in a couple lymph nodes around the thyroid site in March, so he will most likely have a full body scan yet this calendar year, and we do not yet know why he still has seizures, why he is tired so much, why he bruises like this, or why he is having trouble gaining weight.
We may never know some of these things, but we will continue…
Moment by moment.
