Hannah's Facebook status from sixteen years ago today was this ... "Hannah is gonna give God the glory when all this is said and done ... no more radiation!"

We were so thrilled that Hannah had come through 52 total radiation treatments relatively unscathed. The dreaded side effects outlined at the beginning of the process, for the most part, had not manifested themselves. Yes, she was bald, her blood counts had taken a pretty good hit, and her throat was mighty sore, but overall, she seemed to be doing remarkably well. We knew there were a number of negative long-term side effects of full brain radiation, but we brushed those concerns aside. After all, what could we do about those? The radiation had been necessary for Hannah's survival, and in about a week, an MRI would reveal how successful it had been.

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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