Tag: Colon Cancer

• Grace To Grieve by Lori Matthews

  

  On Oct. 14, 2014, my husband had emergency surgery for a mass in his colon. Two days later, Todd was diagnosed with Stage IV colon cancer. My strong, healthy, 46-year-old husband, the father of our two sons, would endure four surgeries in six days and spend 19 days in the hospital recovering. And suddenly, grief…

  homegrownjournal

  October 3, 2021

  2021, Faith, October 2021, Storytellers

  Colon Cancer, God, Grief, Jesus, Lori Matthews, Missouri, Mourning, Nixa, Prayer, Psalms 73:23-24, Savior, Todd Matthews

• Sidelined, but Fighting

  

  Traci Prater has cancer. Cancer does not have Traci Prater. Friday night, March 12, I’m leaving work, and I put my trench coat on. It feels heavy, and I feel a slight pain in the center of my torso, just below my sternum. I think to myself, “Well, that has never happened before.” But the…

  homegrownjournal

  July 5, 2021

  2021, July 2021, Neighbors

  2 Corinthians 12:9, Bethel Baptist Church, Big Cedar Lodge, Brain Cancer, Branson, Breast Cancer, Colon Cancer, Colonoscopy, God, Indicators, KY3, Liver, Murney Associates, Psalm 103:8, Real Estate, Sharp Pain, Stage 4 Colon Cancer, Stage IV, Traci Prater, Urgent Care, West Plains, Zane