thank you so much for your prayers. We set out Sunday morning with lighter hearts than we’ve had in a long time. There’s something lovely that happens when I confess struggles. I’m beginning to learn that Satan uses my desire for privacy to defeat me so often. Not that I should dump every crazy thought [...]

So this post-chemo week has been really tough in the Stallings’ household. This past Thursday things were looking good. Emmett was able to play at VBS in the morning and evening. He didn’t need much medicine, and was holding strong most of the day. Then we got home. That’s when the vommitting started. Since Thursday [...]

So today is Saturday. It’s weird for me, usually I start chemo on a wednesday, finish on friday, and Saturday is the first of about three bounce back days. So I already feel out of sorts, being a day off of my normal ‘routine’ of re-acclimating to life as normal, or as normal as it [...]

So in short, it’s good news. Of course you sometimes hope for more than you get, but we’ll take any range of good news that we can. The main concern is the tumors in the liver, and they have shrunk on average to about half their size. Although there is no way to determine the [...]

It’s now officially early Thursday, and we’re still wrapping up Wednesday at the Stallings house after a fabulous night with dear friends. Later today we go in for more news and to meet with our new doctor. I’ll update the blog as soon as we get home and settled tomorrow evening. In other news, the [...]