Karen White had a lingering sore in her mouth. When she decided to see a doctor, he didn't seem terribly concerned, but he did a biopsy. Then one morning the doctor called Karen.
“Will you and Brad come in to my office?”
“When the doctor called and asked if Brad
could come to the appointment with me, it kind of indicated the biopsy results
might be serious,” Karen said.
Brad was on a flight at that moment from
Norway. “He told me to take Nikki (16) with me. She was with me when the doctor
gave me the news. [Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma]. When we arrived home I told Amber,
our then 10 year old daughter. Nikki and I decided not to tell Brad until he
got home.” (He flew Bergen, Norway to Amsterdam. Amsterdam to Atlanta and Atlanta
to Memphis.)
In the middle of his flight Brad started
worrying about the biopsy results.
“Neither of us or the doctor had been worried
for a minute, but that day the Lord prepared him for the news,” Karen said. “As
soon as he arrived in Atlanta he called me. His first words were, “What about
the biopsy?”
That night they called Karen’s and Brad’s
parents.
“We knew the biopsy results were serious, but
we certainly didn’t understand the full scope of the biopsy results,” Karen
said.
1 comment:
God protects us as we await the outcome of procedures. He also gives us prior insight to the need our loved ones face.
Cecelia Lester (Quiet Spirit)
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