Dear Family and Friends:
Christina’s amazing (thanks to all of your prayers!) two-week assault on cancer ended with a barrage of good news. First, her high fever disappeared within 30 minutes after we sent an e-mail asking for your prayers. Next, we received a call from Christina’s surgeon that the national testing laboratory concluded (in almost record time) that the tumor was “not amplified” (the most favorable rating) so chemotherapy will most likely not be necessary. Finally, Christina is home! We have so many reasons to rejoice!
Christina is so excited to be home with her family and seems to be more full of life since returning to familiar surroundings. Her left eyelid is still “droopy” looking, and only time will tell if the nerve that controls that eye will be able to repair itself. But given all the wonderful news of this past week, that is the least of our worries!
We can't thank you enough for the love you showed Christina and our family through your prayers, calls, support, words of encouragement, e-mails, service, meals, etc… we are grateful! We are going to ask for your continued prayers for Christina’s eye, and that her follow up tests over the next number of months will go well.
Since Christina is too young to have any lasting memories of this event -- where a dangerous form of cancer was overwhelmed by the awesome grace of God -- we are hoping that you will let her know how you prayed for her and / or how her successful battle against this awful tumor impacted you or someone that you know. We will assemble a scrapbook for Christina with all of your notes and stories that you send us so that she can have it for the rest of her life.
With all of our love,
Tina, Bob and all the Mulhern kids
