Prayer Request For Angie

I received word this past week that one of my college friends has grade 3 breast cancer. She said that grade 3 means it is a fast moving cancer. Her specific cancer is Ductal Carcinoma (in the milk ducts) and Invasive Ductal Carcinoma (cancer that can spread). I received the following email from her this evening.


Hello to all.
We met with the specialist today. My surgery is planned for this Thursday at 2:30 in the afternoon at Blodgett Hospital.
I will have my left breast removed, as well as one of the lymph nodes. During surgery this lymph node will be screened for cancer... if it shows cancer then more lymph nodes will be removed.
In April, I will begin chemotherapy.
IF the lymph nodes show cancer... I will also have to do radiation.
I am asking of each of you to pray that the lymph nodes are free and clear!
I will mid summer do reconstruction surgery of my left breast, as well as possibly removal and construction of the right.
I TRULY appreciate the prayers, thoughts, concerns, cards, flowers... everything!!!!!
This has been two of the longest most emotional weeks we have ever undergone.
I KNOW that GOD is SOOOO much BIGGER than THIS! He is in control. Knowing that the next 6 - 9 months are going to be stressful... your prayers are greatly appreciated.
I will do my best to update by email as soon as I can.
Thank you again for everything. Please especially keep my girls in your prayers, and my husband.
God bless each of you.

I know she had an MRI over the weekend to see if the cancer had spread to the right breast so I am assuming since she is not scheduled to have it removed as well on Thursday that it has not spread to the other breast. She did say in previous email that her lymph nodes are swollen.

Each email she has sent has asked for specific prayer for her husband, Mike, and their two daughters. Mike also attended the same college. Her oldest daughter is around 14 (I think) and her youngest is about 11ish. The years run together so I can't remember exactly.

Please keep her in your prayers. Her name is Angie Cook. Besides praying for healing, I have been praying for courage and extreme peace to be over her and her family. She also teaches school so I'm not sure how this will effect them financially. I'm sure that is the least of their worries right now, but I would ask you to pray for that area for them before they even think to ask for it themselves. Like she said, God is so much bigger than this.

I'll update you all as I hear anything.