Dear Prayer Group...one of our members (Tim) received this request...
Dear Tim:
Susan's full name is Susan Matthews Reiter, if you have access to a prayer list.
Pray for Susan that she finds peace and does not die before her children are adults. Susan is 45 years old, is almost a 5 year cancer survivor, and now has Stage 4 bone cancer, lower back and right hip. The cancer has not spread, for example, to the liver. Previously, Susan had chemotherapy, breast cancer surgery and radiation therapy, for almost one year.
The initial treatment now is heavy dose injections of hormone medication. The goal is to slow the growth, and possibly, to eliminate the bone cancer altogether. If this does not work, then chemo and radiation would be the next step. Last Monday and Tuesday Susan had a battery of tests at MD Anderson. By last Friday we had received a bill for $34K dollars for the tests alone. So far, United Healthcare has paid most of the medical bills, now in excess of $700K dollar
Several of my family still live in the same house, Susan, her second husband, Marc, and Jake (16) and Annie (14). Susan has three children from her first husband; Mike(25) and married to Sarah, and then Jake and Annie. Marc has 2 children, Ellie(21), attending St. Edward's in Austin, and Brady(16), attending Lamar H.S. with Annie and Jake. Jake now has his own truck, lives with his dad and works part-time for his dad. Jake attends another local high school and plays on the h.s. baseball team. Brady and Jake are at our house most weekend. If you are not already confused, my son, Mike, is the father of three girls, all now teenagers, and all living in Houston with their mother.
My prostate cancer was in 1994, and my recent thyroid cancer is very slow growing and is almost in remission. I also cannot die now-it takes a village and we certainly have a village of teenagers.
God's Peace,
Tom H.
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