From April 8 to June 23, 2014, I had 12 hospital or doctor’s visits getting scanned, tested, biopsied, and results. Their final result conversation went like this, as he showed me the MRI film:

Doctor: “Where your mass is located we will not be able to operate. Surgery is not an option because it passes thru your Hepatic vein and artery (the main blood vessels) and you could possibly bleed out.”

Me: “So what is your recommended option?”

Doctor: “Well, I can’t operate, but maybe there is some way it can be treated.”

Me: “Ok?”

Doctor: “You will need to discuss that with your local attending physician.”

He shook my hand and showed us the door.  

Although I was somewhat in a state of shock, I kept remembering all of the times God has blessed our family and proved the doctor’s diagnosis to be incorrect. (Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. Deuteronomy 31:6)

Flashback: At the age of 14 my Mom had a ruptured appendix. The doctors opened

her side so it could drain. They told my grandmother to take her home,

there was nothing more they could do. My grandmother and the church

prayed for her and she is now 85 years old. There was fear that she

should not get pregnant because her side might be too weak to carry

full term. She gave birth to 5 children naturally with no complications from

her appendix.