LEWIS HOLTON

UPDATE 9/24/2007
Lewis went to the oncologist Friday. He is scheduled to have his port done on 10/4 and will begin chemo 10/8. Please be in prayer for him as he goes through this process. Thank you for your prayers... Cayce Burwell

Please take a minute to lift up the following in prayer... My uncle, Lewis Holton, will be undergoing surgery this afternoon to remove a malignant tumor in his colon and biopsy additional questionable places on his liver and a lymph node. There's also a spot under his toungue, which the doctor has said is also malignant, but this doctor isn't going to do anything with it. (I'm unclear whether he has to see another doctor on that one or what.) He started passing blood and having pain, but being a "macho man", apparently didn't seek medical attention for a while. Once he did (about 3 weeks ago), they started testing. Originally, they were going to just remove the tumor by laproscopic surgery, but after finding the other questionable places, decided to "open him up" to look around and biopsy those (and anything else that may be suspect). My grandmother has been there with him (he's single and lives in Murrells Inlet) and is not happy with the doctor's office nor hospital. They seem to keep losing his records, duplicating meds, asking, "Have you been to this office before?", etc. Needless to say, that doesn't give us a warm-fuzzy feeling -- but we know that Christ is the Great Physician anyway, and He certainly knows Lewis and everything about him. So - we're placing our trust and faith in Him, and in Him alone. Please pray that He will direct the minds and hands of the doctors and staff. <>< Cayce Burwell