March 19, 2023

It’s been several months since my last post, and I have thought for some time of how to transition and end posting here though my/our journey continues.  Caringbridge has offered a space to express what sometimes I didn’t even know was within me, just needing the emptiness of the page to hold what I often wasn’t expecting to lay down.  It has brought relief and gratitude to write and to feel joined with you reading and remembering me in your thoughts and prayers with a God who sees and hears.  My last MRI in January seemed to indicate the radiation was successful in that there was no new growth of the meningioma. There were a couple of new non-meningioma “spots” on the thalamus portion of my brain.  It is the relay portion of the brain that controls motor, verbal, cognitive, memory, etc. functions of the body, with no clarity of what the spots are.  I ask for prayer that those spots don’t change or bring negative symptoms as they are in an inoperable portion of the brain, and radiation is also not an option. As I said the journey continues, with my next MRI scheduled for July and then another one and another one and another one… after that. I am grateful for how  healing can be witnessed in the large ways of getting through brains surgeries and radiation, and continue to ask for prayers for those, but also ask for the comfort to come for the daily and common labors to remember, to understand, to be kind to adaptations to what my life now needs.  And in the midst of that I have been given a reassurance of seeing how the situations of my life have changed, but what has called my heart to life has been with me since the beginning.

I think an email address celebratinglife4susan@gmail.com was created for me, for any updates.  

Thank you all

susan