MANDY

11/19/2007
I received the email below from Mandy's sister Kerry on October 26th. Since then Mandy has gone to see a doctor at Duke (he is the best around from what I heard). Mandy had her surgery Tuesday November 6th at Duke to have the other lymph nodes removed. Kerry just called to say that they tested some 23-26 lymph nodes and all came back negative. The doctor told Mandy at this point it was up to her if she wanted to start any treatments as a preventative. And Mandy told the doctor that she did want to try it. So that is the next step for Mandy. She is cancer free and so very thankful to God and to each of you for your many prayers. She knows what a blessing this is and she will forever be grateful.
I so much want to thank you all for the many prayers. I feel that the prayers that each of you sent her way are what have made all the difference in her. Mandy and Kerry and I truly believe that all the positive reports back from the doctor were only due to the power of prayer. Mandy has been so overwhelmed by all the prayers and emails she has received. She is so thankful to each and everyone of you. <><>< Lisa =====================
Hi everyone. I wanted to thank you all for praying for my sister the past few weeks. I really believe our prayers have been answered. Of course keep praying always! As most of you know Mandy had some melanoma that had spread into her sentinal node under her arm and had to have a full body scan to see if it had spread anywhere else and it all came back negative!!!!! Thank God! She will still have her other lymph nodes removed for precaution but she is going to be fine and I'm thankful! Please spread the good news because I know there are so many people out there that know about this and have been praying but might not have heard the good news! Thank you all and I love you! Kerry

11/6/2007
Kerry just called and Mandy is already out of surgery. The doctor said she was so thin that it didn't take that long to get in there and get out what needed to come out. The doctor also said that everything looked good and that there was only about a 5% chance the resolves would come back bad. Robert will be able to go back there and be with Mandy in about an hr and then Mandy can decide if she wants to come home or stay the night. I know Mandy...... she will be at home in her bed with her little boys tonight! Thanks for all of your prayers and keep them coming. She still has treatments to go through.

10/30/2007 <><
I received this update from Mandy's sister Kerry on Friday. Since then Mandy has gone to see a doctor at Duke he is the best around from what I heard. Mandy will have her surgery Tuesday November 6th at Duke to have the other lymph nodes removed. She will have a lot of treatment ahead of her the next year or so and the doctor say they will become real buddies over the next several months. She does have a 30 to 40% chance this will come back so we do need to continue to pray it away from her. I so much want to thank you all for the many prayers. I feel that the prayers that each of you sent her way are what have made all the difference in her. Mandy is out of the bed and living. She is strong and ready to fight this, and the reports back from the doctor were only due to the power of prayer and I know that and so does Mandy. She is overwhelmed by all the prayers and emails she has received. She is so thankful to each and everyone of you. She knows that with God's help she will get through this. We just can't believe that what was there in her lymph nodes are now gone. Praise God!!!!! – Lisa Medlin

10/26/2007 <><
Hi everyone. I wanted to thank you all for praying for my sister the past few weeks. I really believe our prayers have been answered. Of course keep praying always! As most of you know Mandy had some melanoma that had spread into her sentinal node under her arm and had to have a full body scan to see if it had spread anywhere else and it all came back negative!!!!! Thank God! She will still have her other lymph nodes removed for precaution but she is going to be fine and Im thankful! Please spread the good news because I know there are so many people out there that know about this and have been praying but might not have heard the good news! Thank you all and I love you! -- Kerry

10/22/2007 <><
I am asking for each and everyone of you to please pray for my cousin Mandy. Mandy is 33 and has a 2 year and a 4 year little boy. Six years ago she had a mole removed from her arm and everything was good. Well this summer she has been concerned about the place were the mole was removed. It looked funny to her and she asked her doctor about it and the doctor told her is was fine. Well, as it happens so many time it was not fine. She went to another doctor because Mandy was just not sure it was "fine". This doctor didn't like to way it looked and set up surgery for Mandy to have more removed. They injected her with a dye that lead to the lymph nodes and also removed the lymph node that it was leading to. They told her it was melanoma cancer, but they hoped they got it all. This past Friday Mandy had to go back to get the results and they were not good. The cancer has spread to her other lymph nodes. This Wednesday 10-24-07 she will be going in to have a PET scan. This is a full body scan so they can see if it has spread to any other parts of her body. Next Monday 10-29-07 she will be going back in for more surgery so they can remove the other lymph nodes. Mandy is not handling this very well at all. All she wants to do is lay in the bed and cry. We need to pray her out of that bed and up and on her feet, ready to fight this thing with everything she has. We need to pray on Wednesday that there will be no other cancer anywhere in her body. And we need to pray that on Monday to doctor will be able to remove all the cancer when they remove her other lymph nodes, and she will recover from this as strong as she was before. <>< PLEASE PRAY AS HARD AS YOU CAN. MANDY IS SO SPECIAL TO ME. SHE IS SO MUCH MORE THAN JUST A COUSIN TO ME, SHE IS LIKE MY SISTER, MY FRIEND, MY CHILD ALL ROLLED INTO ONE. PLEASE PRAY FOR HER. Thanks so much! Love you all! Lisa