Winnin' With Quinlan...and he will

The first thing I do when I start to blog, is think of a cute, catchie title.  I have red that most writers never title their books until after it is finished.  Well, since I don't write books, I usually do this first.  But today I have had problems coming up with an appropriate title.  Here are a few that came to mind:

• Ask and it shall be given to you
• Faith, Hope and Love, these three
• I told ya so
• take that, cancer
• Gotta have faith
• YES
• G.O.N.E.

But none of these really said what I really want to say.

Quinlan has been doing great.  A little nausea and a day or two of emotional break downs but other than that, he has done great.  And he looks good even with his shiny head...:)  Darin, Quinlan's dad, has been a little under the weather and stressed. Go figure...Stressed? But he is on the mends and doing as well as can be expected, maybe better, than someone who goes through this horrible disease with a precious child.  Keep praying for him.

Quinlan had a PET scan last Monday, April 1st.  The initial results from the people there was that it was "stable".  What the heck did that mean?  Stable?  To me it meant it wasn't getting any worse.  I was expecting to hear that it was gone.  He had already made progress after the first treatment if you remember, so I was really expecting a miracle. 

His appointment with his regular oncologist was today and they were told she would go over the results with him then.  This morning around 10:30, I received a text message from Quinlan's dad.  Yes, I had my cell phone out on my desk.(this is against school rules...ooops.)  Anyway, I read the text about 10 times, trying to make sure my eyes were really seeing what I thought they were.  Before I said anything to anyone, I had my teammate cover my class and I called Darin to be sure of what he was saying.  This is his message, " Good news - Scans say there's no activity on Quinlan's knee, and no cancer anywhere else in his body.  Bad news, we check into hospital today to start next cycle of treatment for the next 7 days".  I had to sit down while I was talking to him.  He said they were continuing with the treatments as planned as a preventive measure.  I think that "bad news" is something that can be handled.

Surprised????  I was not surprised in the least.  Amazed????  Absolutely.  Amazed at what my God can and will do if we have faith.   

Please continue to pray for Quinlan and his dad and his doctors.  That is what has gotten him here so far.