I posted previously about my boyfriend’s cancer journey. His CT scan did not show complete eradication of his Stage 4 metastatic kidney cancer, but his chest lymph nodes had cleared up a bit.
The main tumor on his kidney is currently the size of a golfball. He is continuing the every three weeks immunotherapy infusions and taking a kinase inhibitor. His doctor also started him on levothyroxine for his thyroid and a blood pressure medication.
By the grace of God he was able to return to work at his old job that he missed - and with better pay than his previous job! By God’s grace he has been working full-time as a maintenance man even though he experiences extreme fatigue and full-body arthiritis. Please pray for us to have strong faith in this trial. It will be a long haul unless God decides to intervene and speed up the healing process. I know that is what my flesh wants - a quick out - an easy path. But this is the path we are on.
Pray for me as I am feeling burned out and sometimes angry like why bring such a great man into my life but he has Stage 4 metastatic kidney cancer? I have had a hard time trusting God and His care in this circumstance. I need people in my life for support and who care. I appreciate everyone who takes the time to read this and pray for us. My boyfriend is about to be 27 and I’m about to be 29. Thank you, everyone.
Loving Father,
We come before You with hearts both heavy and hopeful. You see the journey of this young man and his battle with cancer. You see the courage it takes for him to rise each morning, to work through pain, to hold on to faith even when the road is long. Surround him now with Your healing power. Let every cell in his body be renewed by Your grace. Guide his doctors, bless the medicine, and let each treatment bring light where there has been darkness.
Lord, be with his partner who loves him deeply and carries this burden of fear and weariness. Fill her with peace when she feels helpless, and remind her that You walk with them both. Teach her to rest in Your timing and to find comfort in Your promises, even when answers seem far away.
Bless them with people who will lift them, encourage them, and walk beside them through this valley. Let love, not fear, be the loudest voice in their days.
We thank You for every mercy already given, for the strength to work, the healing already begun, and the hope that still lives in their hearts.
May Your will unfold in beauty and purpose, and may Your presence be felt in every breath they take.
Thank you so much, Rose. Your prayer is very moving and loving. I appreciate your kind words lifted up to God on Thomas’s behalf and my behalf. I try to keep my burden to myself because I don’t want to wear down his spirit, and I don’t have too many people in my life that I can talk to often or feel it is wise to “dump” on them. Thank you SO much. God bless you as you continue to minister to others through prayer.
May God bless you with His strength and peace. Hang in there Keep the faith.
Oh Lord our Savior, in the name of Jesus We come to you as humble as we know how and we give you thanks for every new day full of new mercies each morning. Lord, we lift up Ivory and her mate whom is in a battle with cancer and we cry out to you Lord on their behalf. We pray that you will give Ivory the strength she needs Lord for The Bible says that they that wait on the Lord shall renew their strength. We know that you are the Great Physician and we cry out to you to heal this man of his infirmity, sickness, or disease. Lord we ask releasing our faith on behalf of Ivory and her mate. Lord we trust you and we know that all good gifts are from you. We pray that you give them a fresh filling of faith and if there is anything that they need to do please reveal it to them. If he needs to see a specific doctor please reveal this to them Lord and let your loving arms be wrapped around them in the mighty name of Jesus we pray Amen
Yes, thank you so much. I need strength because I have none. I feel the burden and faith is not easy as I have friends becoming agnostic and forsaking their faith which has nothing to do with Thomas’s battle but doesn’t help me feel strong in my own faith. Thank God it is not about our grasp on Him but about His grasp on us. Thank God.
The Lord will give you strength and faith when you ask for it which is a requirement for us to receive from Him. Hebrews 11:6 tells us without faith it is impossible to please God we must believe to receive from Him. And it is His timing not ours that is something we all must accept. You never know when He will show up, it could be immediately sometimes and sometimes we have to waite but in either case just keep the faith and don’t give up because He won’t give up on you. This is my prayer for you. Be blessed.
I must have been meant to read this while checking my emails for something else. Pray with me popped up and I began reading your post. Wow, how your story relates to myself. I’m 55 and have a 27 yr old son and 34 year old daughter. I can’t imagine anything like this happening to such a young soul. This year on my 55th birthday I wound up going to the hospital after being sick for a long time . Since July of the previous year. There were little symptoms that I ignored to my thyroid (hashimoto’s) which I’ve had since I was 21. I’ve been on levothyroxine and I thought the issues were stemming from being too hypo or too hyper with my thyroid. I was constantly fatigued and thought that my color was changing to my skin. I asked to my boyfriend of 19 years if I looked kind of tan to him and he said no. Well I finally went to the doctor on my birthday and they said I could come back in for labs and blood work the next day. Long story short I wound up going to the hospital with severe right upper quadrant pain. They thought it was my gallbladder. It turned out to be drug-induced autoimmune hepatitis from a drug that I took in July of 2024. I was severely jaundice and my liver was shutting down. I am currently on chemotherapy and prednisone and have been since May. It may not be cancer but there is no cure and I have to be on chemotherapy and prednisone for the rest of my life to keep my liver in remission. When I read your story, I understood exactly how you feel. It’s hard to always have faith when things go wrong, because that’s when the devil wants to put doubt in our brains. I just take each day one day at a time and I’m thankful to be alive and to have a second chance to be here with my kids and to make memories with them both. There are days when I feel like I can’t even get out of bed because my body hurts so bad. I have gained roughly 40 lb from the prednisone. I will pray for you and your boyfriend. God is always with you and I know that it feels like a heavy burden on your shoulders, but he never leaves you. Everyday that I wake up. I am happy I have another day. Just keep praying. Ivory. Don’t give up. Miracles happen everyday. I’m A good person too and I used to ask God why, why me? What did I do so wrong to deserve this? And then I thought to myself… God only wants angels and one day I’ll be with him looking down and knowing he had a plan for me all along even though it may be tough. I am a warrior and your boyfriend is a warrior too… we both will make it through this and I pray that he is able to recover and go into remission with his treatment. I pray for you that God takes some of the weight off of your shoulders and that you can enjoy each and every special moment with him and not focus on because illness. I’m learning to let go of my illness because I don’t want my illness to define me. I do not want to be my illness, I want to be the mom, girlfriend, mother, friend, and Aunt to those around me.
I’m thankful for finding this website. Sometimes I feel so desperate and alone. Just yesterday my boyfriend lashed out at me and said how I don’t understand how he feels.
I asked him the other week what I could do to help him and he said “nothing.”
I cannot read his mind but the only way I could take that was to mean everything I’ve done over the past year was useless. The food I cooked and my presence - who cares? It was nothing.
I don’t know why I have bothered to care so much only to be attacked for it. I have decided I am just a human, just one person, and I cannot handle this on my own.
I’m very thankful you told me your story and that you have spoken encouragement into my life. At this point, God can do whatever He wants - because I cannot do anything.
Your prayer is very moving and loving. I appreciate your kind words lifted up to God on Thomas’s behalf and my behalf. I try to keep my burden to myself because I don’t want to wear down his spirit, and I don’t have too many people in my life that I can talk to often or feel it is wise to “dump” on them. Thank you SO much. 