**WARNING** - This post is fairly graphic and could be upsetting to some. If you are sensitive to discussions of blood, you may wish to skip it.

On this date sixteen years ago today, we found ourselves racing to Arkansas Children's Hospital emergency room in the wee hours of the morning. Hannah's low platelet levels were the culprit, and after a brief stay in the emergency room, we were admitted. Surprisingly, her doctors decided to go ahead with the MRI, even with all of this going on. The results were reviewed with us that afternoon and they were devastating, but not unexpected. We would soon be faced with decisions we never thought we'd have to make on behalf of our teenage daughter. But for that night, we just settled into the familiarity of the hospital and tried to get some rest.

Thank you for joining me for another bonus episode of the While We're Waiting podcast in this year-long series in which I share our family’s experiences as our teenage daughter Hannah battled glioblastoma brain cancer from February 2008 through February 2009. My desire is to process through the events of those twelve months with the perspective that 16 years has brought … and point listeners to hope in Jesus along the way.

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