I DID get an update when I sent Leslie my "report" on all the praying that had been going on for her:

".... We go tomorrow for my first follow-up appointment since the beginning of my chemo. I feel so incredibly well, physically, that I know it's due to all the prayers and good thoughts. Now about those lesions [on the liver]- I just hope they're shrinking or at least not growing! But it's early in the chemo, so we may need more time.

Love, Leslie

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Last night I ignored an urge to bring Leslie more strongly before a group. So now I'm praying to be more obedient to those nudges. And I sent her update to just about all the praying people I know.

And Eb-- They were acting as though he were facing something that they never would. Here in this rural community, you might be comforted to know, the tendency is to act like it's just this person's turn, or that one's, to be sick or widowed or have a housefire, or total their car on a deer, or whatever. A sympathy born more of empathy. I think. Masters from whom I'm trying to learn.

~Susan