Jason will be having surgery on May 24. This will be taking away half his A/C joint and part of his actual shoulder bone and the muscles/ligaments involved.  It’ll be a long road of physical therapy, but his pain with be gone. We have the pain somewhat managed until then but now the cancer in his tail bone area is flaring up and that is causing him a lot of pain even on the pain meds for his shoulder. 

This journey is a roller coaster, you have a split second at the top to breathe and then it comes speeding down. A split second at the top isn’t enough, but I thank God for the friends in life who continue to encourage us. 

A few things to pray for:
1) Pain management  

2) because of the pain, Jason isn’t sleeping and we both are completely exhausted. 

3)Jason’s body would handle the surgery well, and his healing even better  

4) strength for me (Sam) physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually to to handle the busiest season of our year and adding this surgery and Jason’s healing to it all. Please pray for my attitude to humble myself to be the caregiver and wife Jason needs without bitterness because I am tired too (if I’m being honest and vulnerable here). 

5) wisdom with life decisions such as starting a full time job for me. Continuing to make these decisions out of faith and not fear and rearranging life to take some things off our plate. Pray the future job would be flexible with our lives. 

6) the next scans show even more shrinking in his body and starting to shrink in the brain  

7) continue to pray for provisions financially