I am forever grateful to indexers. Ancestry.com released
this month records from Romania. When I did a search for my great grandmother,
Wilhelmina Rosa Kasch, I received no hits. I was disappointed but some Rosa
Kasch's did come up in the search, so at least I felt comfortable that the
correct spelling for this time period was Kasch and not Kas with an umlaut. I
decided to try her father. Minnie as she was known had written the name of her
parents for my mom and some dates. So I typed in Endru Kasch with his birth
date, marriage date and the name of his spouse, Sari Ilyes. I couldn't believe
what I was seeing! The first hit was Andreas Kasch married to Sara Illyes. The
places matched and the date of marriage was only 1 year off. It had the name of
his parents including the maiden name of his mother. We have finally linked to
the next generation. This Romania line has been blank all of our lives! I was
so excited that I facetimed with mom (who is dealing with cancer and just lost
all of her hair today). I didn't tell what I had found but guided her through
the same search I had done and let her enjoy the same excitement and of course,
she did. I added the names of Andreas' parents to family tree under my mom's
account and reserved the temple work for her to do.
But here are my sacred thoughts
about the timing of all of this. Yes, we have been waiting for a breakthrough
for years. We are engaged in a mighty work and it is marvelous to behold. The
magnitude is beyond my comprehension, but it is still about the "one's".
My mom is going through a really hard time in her life without her eternal
companion. I am so far away, but other family have been a huge blessing and
they have been with her. I have very strong feelings that this discovery will
lead to finding other family members in Romania. This will give my mom focus
and something to look forward to doing during the rough times of cancer
treatment that may be ahead. The timing is perfect for her (the one) and for me
(the one). I feel I have given her something even though I am so far away. And
of course the blessing of being able to do the work for Martin Kasch (the one)
and Anna Kurmes (the one) is also a wonderful opportunity. This work is all
about the "one" and I thank Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ for giving
all us "ones" the opportunity to return to them as families united in
love and purpose, "to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of
man".
Friday, June 19, 2015
Another "one" blessisng for my brother Dallas today. I am going to use Julie's words.
Wednesday of this week:
"We went to a liver
specialist and he said that everyone has spots on their liver and most people
never know that they have them. Most of them are pretty round in
shape. Dallas has one spot that is not round in shape but very oddly and
randomly shaped and larger than the other ones. When they did the CT Scan
the die/contrast was not in his liver enough at the time they took the picture
to get a good look at this oddly shaped spot so the liver doctor ordered an MRI
with contrast so that he could determine what this odd spot is. He said that
VERY rarely does cancer originate in the liver, it usually starts somewhere else
and then spreads to the liver. He said that depending on what he finds, he
might need to do a biopsy of the liver, but that will be determined by what he
finds in the MRI.
He went in this morning
and had the MRI done – the doctor should have the results by tomorrow but we
don’t know that for sure. Just waiting for that . . . .
After they did the MRI he
went to the same day surgery for the endoscopy and the exploration of the
bladder to determine what was in there. After the surgery the doctor told
me that there were two almost golf ball sized tumors in his bladder, one at the
bottom of the urethra opening and one on the top of the urethra opening, each
acting like a stopper/flapper when he tried to urinate. One of them was growing
into the prostate and that is what made the prostate appear so HUGE in the CT
scan. He said the prostate is doing well and is not a problem, his PSA
levels were way low so there is no cancer in the prostrate. He did have
to remove a tiny piece of the prostate because of the tumor but other than that
the prostate is not a concern.
He said the tumors are
cancer, he said there are two different types – I am sure there are more
scientific names for these two types but this is what the doctor told me when
he explained it so here we go . . .
One: is called “surface”
- this is not really a concern, treatment would be that Dallas would have
to go in the office every three months and have a “scope” done in the office to
see if there were any more growing and the doctor would be able to easily
remove them in the office, basically just keeping an eye on things and making
sure that if anything grows, they can be removed quickly before they get to big
or have a chance to become “deep” He said that it could also include a
type of chemo that they would put directly into the bladder that he (Dallas)
would need to keep in there and not urinate for two hours.
Two: is called
“deep” - there is a muscle that surrounds the bladder, he said the “deep”
kind has gone through the bladder wall and penetrated the muscle surrounding
the bladder. He said that once the cancer is outside of the bladder it
can/will spread anywhere in the body. He said that if it is bad enough that the
bladder will need to be removed and then obviously more aggressive chemo
treatments to try and stop any further spread of the cancer.
This is concerning enough
BUT remember the liver lesion . . . and that liver cancer usually comes from
another place in the body? The two problems together give us even greater cause
for concern. We are not trying to “borrow” trouble but it is a possibility and
in the back of our minds."
I could have never imagined that my Mom and my brother would end up with cancer at the same time, within weeks apart! Prayers offered again in earnest.
Friday:
"A little more background –
Our home teacher is a ER Doctor, he is the one who got the ball rolling on all
of this, we let him know the update yesterday and told him that we would not
get the labs back until mid to end of next week and he told us that he would
“put the hurt on someone” so that we could get the results faster.
We just got a phone call
from the Urologist (thank heaven for home teachers that are doctors) he said
that it is stage Ta which means that it is very superficial, very low grade, or
in the terms he described to me before “surface” which is VERY GOOD
NEWS!! He said that if it had to be cancer, that this was the type we
were looking for. Treatment for this will be that Dallas will have to go
in every 3 months for the doctor to take a look in his bladder to see if any
more tumors are growing. If they are and they are small enough, he can take
care of them right in the office. Bladder cancer never goes away, but
this type is VERY manageable and controllable. He will not have to have any
chemo. Basically, just keep an eye on things and monitor everything.
Our home teacher also read
the MRI report and he said that it looks to him like a Hemangioma which is a
noncancerous spot on his liver, which he said that liver spots are very common
and everyone has them and most people don’t even know they have them.
Dallas said that this is
the best birthday/Father’s Day present ever!!"
Thank you Heavenly Father. I will serve with all my might, mind, and strength to continue to try and show my thankfulness for our family's blessings given this month, in this world and in the spirit world.
