More Doctors and Second Opinions

Rebekah has had a long day already. It is 3:30 in the afternoon and she has already been to two "new" hospitals and seen 4 new doctors for second opinions on her current treatment plan. In addition her teacher from her early intervention program is due here any moment to work with her - Rebekah has had to miss out of "school" since all of this started.

The readers digest of all morning at the second opinions is that everyone continues to concur on the need for the radiation and, even though the hospital we went to is a competing hospital with our current provider, no one there even suggested that we change. They all spoke highly of our current oncologsists (which we already knew and we do too!) and what was new to us was that they all had extremely high regard for our new radiation oncologist and the equipment he has available to him.

Basically we wanted to make sure that there was not something else out there that we were missing because we didn't "shop around." We have been and I am sure will continue to be extremely pleased with our current professionals, even if we are not pleased about the needed course of treatment. But we just needed to have that extra security to put any nagging doubt to rest. I guess we hoped the other hospital would have a miracle cure but we pretty much knew they would not.

We did get a call today from our radiation oncologist's office saying that he was out ill today and could not prepare the final steps for our treatment on Monday so that, the first actual day of radiation, was cancelled and we are now supposed to start Tuesday. For some reason we are not too upset about this...

Thank you SO much for those that have started to volunteer to help babysit for our radiation appointments. We have the first weeks needs mostly met and some liklihoods that some of these may be repeats throughout the following 5-6 weeks. THANK YOU!

Please pray for continued "miraculous healing" and protection of the good cells, her eyes, ears, and brain etc. from the radiation and no protection at all for any bad cells that might still be there.