PET scan moved up!

 Today, Seth had his regular appointment and I thought maybe we'd see one of the oncologists but it was just his PICC dressing change and blood work again.  So now new news there, however I did see that on his MyChart App that they moved up his PET scan to December 22nd instead of January 2nd. I figured maybe that would happen.  It's going to be a busy Christmas season! The kids have 2 weeks off of school starting next week and Seth has a PET scan on Monday, a radiology consultation appointment on Tuesday, his regular outpatient appointment on Wednesday and then we'll see if they do surgery the end of next week. 

We were hoping that surgery would be the 27th that way we could have Christmas Day and then on Boxing Day we have the Charity Hockey Tournament Fundraiser for our family and Seth would love to be there. We also are in agreement with the doctors though, that they don't want to put it off if they can help it.  December 24th would've been the 1st day of another round of chemo, but instead we are doing surgery and we don't want to give the cancer any time to decide to grow, even a tiny bit. 

All in God's good timing. He's the only one who knows what's going on in Seth's body and we accept whatever time line we are given as far as a surgery date. 

Seth is only on one medication right now and then taking Vitamin D.  He had a few other medications he was on but hasn't had to take them for a couple weeks, which he's thankful for because one was sodium phosphate which is like drinking straight salt water, and he was not a fan of having to drink that twice a day. 😖

Seth had enough energy to not use a wheelchair at all today. He did half a day of school, then his afternoon appointment,  and we even went to West Edmonton Mall after and did some Christmas shopping (his choice not mine just in case you thought I was the one dragging him along to shop.😆) Praise God that he recovers well after chemo.

Bryan has decided to take the next couple weeks off because of all the busyness of appointments and Christmas/New Year's and if Seth has surgery late next week we know he'll be in the hospital a while to recover.  I'm thankful that he can take time off, and that he'll be there with me to take Seth and hear any updates with me.  Thanks and praise to God for making that possible for our family. ❤

Also I know many of you reading this may not be in the Edmonton area and so I wanted to share our thank you that we placed in our church news. Obviously the communion of saints is much more vast and we know people are praying all around the world for Seth and our family, so I wanted to share our thank you with you as well. 

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Thank you from the Viher family

We want to extend a giant thank you to all of you who have been lifting us up ever since learning of Seth’s cancer diagnosis.  Your countless ways of giving and helping in so many different ways has been such a huge blessing in our lives. We cannot imagine going through this without all of you supporting us in prayer and in practical ways and with various gifts. Your willingness to give and not expecting anything in return lets us experience your Christ-like love and we appreciate it so much. We cannot even begin to thank you all enough. As much as we wish we were not on the receiving end of all this love, it is quite something to experience this side of our communion of saints and we thank God for placing our family amongst all of you. 

From the bottom of our hearts, thank you!

Bryan & Laura, Hailey, Mya, Seth, and Drew

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A few people mentioned to me that they like when I put in specific things to pray for so I can add those as well for you. Pray for Seth's medical team, that the surgery will be able to happen sooner than later and that they will be able to get all the cancer out. Also pray for Seth's body to heal well, and thank God for keeping him a strong healthy young man who's body seems to be doing well considering what it's being put through. I could make this prayer list go on and on but maybe one more thing is to pray that any research we've been asked to be a part of can help them get closer to finding causes and cures for this rare cancer. They don't get many chances to study it and we are grateful for that because it means not many kids have to go through this, so pray that Seth's samples and bloodwork can help researchers figure out why this happens in children and get a better understanding so they can help any kids in the future.  May God graciously prevent any child from having to go through this in the future and we pray Jesus returns and puts an end to all the suffering and grief of this world so we can all live in perfect glory with Him. ♡