Prayer Request for What’s Next

In the last few weeks, we’ve started meeting with the radiation oncologists to find out about what happens next once chemo is done (on December 28th!!) and radiation begins. I’d like to ask for your prayers with the decisions that need to be made.

In a nutshell, I can pursue either the “normal” route of radiation, or a newer version you may have heard of called proton therapy. Both are radiation, both will have the same great statistics/results, and there’s really no difference in terms of the doctors recommendations. The benefit of proton therapy is they can make it more targeted, so there is less damage to surrounding healthy tissue, which sounds like a no-brainer, especially for someone young like me with a lot of years left of needing said healthy tissue. Unfortunately, being the newer treatment, it’s not always approved by insurance.

If I had the choice, I’d like to do the proton therapy, but insurance will let us know the route we will take, and of course God is the one who truly knows which is the path that is best for me.

**So would you please simply pray that whatever the best treatment is for me, that it would be the one approved. That God would orchestrate through all the insurance details, through the employees, and through the randomizations I can’t control so the treatment that is best for me is the one that gets the green light.**

God has promised to make my paths straight, and He knows what is best and has already gone before me. I pray that He will intervene within the details and circumstances that I can’t control and provide the best way forward. And that whatever the outcome is, I pray He also provide His peace for me that I can rest in the knowledge that whatever the decision, He was the orchestrator.