Sean - God is Gracious - Leukemia is cancer

Sean & Alex - Spring 2015

....We've been busy living our lives in CA. Each of my children doing different things... Sarahmae and her husband, oh yeah - she got married in 2014 - anyway, they moved just a few days ago to Washington. Mesha got his real estate license and lives with his wife Josie. Colin and Krista are in the area with their daughter Alex, my beautiful granddaughter who is almost 5 now. Sean, well, Sean has been very busy these past few months. And Bekah is going to community college and an honor student.

...back in October 2015 Sean got sick. What seemed to be a cold or viral illness turned out to be ALL - Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, the T-Cell kind.

Sean - October 25, 2015 

Very, very rare, especially for a then 23 year old. Less than one in 100,000 between the ages of 21-24 to be more exact. And very, very aggressive. Untreated he could die in one month of onset of ALL. ...We have been in a race ever since.

I thought I should write to process through, but this is not a jog - it is a full speed ahead marathon race for his life, ever minute, every day. And we all have spent the first month running along side Sean in shock, in fear, in anger, in disbelief. 

And now, I run like I am swimming a marathon...taking every breath, with every stroke, listening to the sound of my own heartbeat, praying, (really crying out and fighting it out with God), crying again, breathing some more. I bargain with God, and wrestle with God, knowing and declaring "You are good God, You love Sean more than I could ever, You are faithful... Your will be done," and "Father! Heal my son!"

The race began on October 26, the day after I took Sean to the emergency room (for the 2nd time) and the doctors scrambled, and did tests, and assured us they would see us through no matter "whether you have money or don't have money, whether you have insurance or don't have insurance" the doctor said, "we will see Sean through this to the end," he said. The first ER doctor was a moron, for lack of a better word. He was arrogant, flippant, detached, and unconcerned. Sean was already sick and showing serious symptoms. But he sent us home. When we returned Sean was so much more sick. A week had gone by, which we would later find out was a week out of a month period of time that could have cost him his life before we even got started. But that is another story for another day, or post, or comment.

On Sunday, October 25th a nice, and smart, and discerning doctor was very attentive, alarmed, and ready for action. By the time we were leaving the ER he informed us that the "more specialized blood test" would be complete and in 2-3 days the Oncology-Hematologist would call us with results. Oncologist-Hematologist? A cancer doctor? A blood specialist? What??? We left the hospital, Sean was tired, in pain, and really sick. 

On Monday, the next day, the Oncologist-Hematologist called before noon. That was NOT 2-3 days, especially since the blood test was only started that morning! 

Sean & Alex - October 28, 2015

He called Sean. Sean was at community college waiting for his next class. It was Dr. Nair, head of the Oncology-Hematology department. He told Sean he was sorry to tell him on the phone but he needed Sean to be admitted to the hospital as soon as possible.
And "Sean, you have leukemia. That's cancer."  

Sean & me - Nov. 2015

Sean & Sarahmae - Nov. 2015 

Christina giving camera to Sean Dec. 2015

Christmas 2015

Sean in the hospital again -  Jan. 2016

Sarahmae & Robert passing thru to WA -  Feb. 2016

#Life4Sean #defeatleukemia #ALL #cancersucks #futureandahope  #Jeremiah29:11 


For more on Sean's journey since October:
www.gofundme.com/Life4SeanLancaster
For more about Leukemia:
https://www.lls.org