Mom called tonight around 6:30 – Aunt Charl was out of surgery – cancer free! Not only that – her doctor – the same one who had operated on her when they found the cancer (at which time he just closed her back up because she was too weak to withstand surgery), the same doctor who had put the tubes in her kidneys until she get stronger – told Uncle Brian that when he opened her up and removed her uterus and ovaries – THERE WAS NO SIGN OF CANCER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The doctor was stunned!!! Uncle Brian, cried and told him he had golden hands! The Doctor just shook his head, held out his hands – and humbly said “NO – These are flesh and bones. What I saw was miraculous. If I hadn’t been the one to open her up and see that cancer the first time – I never would have believed it had even ever been there!” Aunt Charl even cried when she woke up and heard the news! And that is after two doctors from John Hopkin’s told Uncle Brian – Fill her morphine prescriptions and do your best to control her pain, but she should just go home, because there’s nothing else we can do! Thank God, her daughter and Brian researched and found Sloan Kettering! She has been undergoing chemo for 5 weeks at Sloan Kettering – other than hair loss – she has been up the entire time and has said all along – it isn’t as bad as she was expecting it to be!

Mom said – Vinnie THANK YOU FOR THE VOTIVE!!!

It’s not odd. It’s God… (okay – I know – cheesy – but what can you say????) I Believe In Miracles! There’s a whole clan that will go to bed tonight – Thanking God. AND on top of that, My Step-Dad got word that his sister’s own (stage 4) breast cancer was completely removed and she won’t even radiation or chemo!

I don’t know why some people are healed – and others aren’t – but you must keep the faith – if not the will. Often the miracles are happening all throughout the battle – even if the end result means dying. It is truly the journey of life that is the gift. Maybe it’s the one’s who survive who are the ones that still need to finish wrapping their presents before going to God.

Thank you for the rosebuds, St. Therese.