Not much has happened in the past few days, and in a way that means that A LOT has happened. Sara has been going on walks (and her heart rate isn’t going through the roof), she’s feeding herself, laughing, carrying on full conversations (as long as she’s not on dopey medicine – but once the narcotics kick in, forget about it) and thinking clearly. But my favorite thing to see is what she’s doing right now; she’s sleeping laying down flat.

That might not seem like much to you, perhaps just a small step, but it’s one giant leap for sarakind. You see, Sara hasn’t slept on a flat surface for over a month. She’s been unable to pull her shoulders back all the way, too; both of these things caused her to cough uncontrollably. We now know that the cause of this was the cancerous tumor pushing against her trachea, and so any time she laid flat gravity did the work and her lungs couldn’t push the mass up, or sitting with comfortable posture did the same thing and forced her to hunch forward (causing back pain for months).

So she can sit up straight. She can lay down flat. Does that mean this chemo stuff is working? That the mass in her chest is shrinking? That she’s being cured? We’ll find that out in the coming weeks/months. For now she’s resting comfortably, and that’s more than I could have hoped and prayed for in as short of a time as 11 days in the hospital (my God, has it been that long already?).

If she continues to progress like this then she’ll be going home Monday. We have another CT scan scheduled tomorrow and they’ve been constantly analyzing her blood alongside just about everything else now (every 4 hours, usually), so we should be all set. Please continue to pray for her strength as I fear that the hardest part of our journey is just beginning. I know it’s going to be an uphill battle, but we’re ready for it. Bring it on.