Joy Comes In the Morning

We're ending this day with happy and hopeful hearts.  We met with Dr. Zlotecki today, and we finally have some news that backs up our peace, comfort, hope and faith.  The doctor showed us the images of his tumor.  He explained that it is an aggressive, "angry" cancer.  That it must be treated with the same aggressiveness it shows.  The upper left area of the tumor is where the malignant cells have formed.  The center of this malignant area is necrotic (meaning the cancer has outgrown it's blood supply).  It will be seeking blood from elsewhere to continue growing.  I understand this to be where the risk of spreading comes in.
Therefore, we will attack this cancer unmercifully with radiation for the next 28 days, beginning next week (most likely on Wednesday of next week).  He was optimistic that we will shrink and nearly kill (if not completely) the cancerous cells and tumor, so that there is a smaller tumor to remove, with clearer margins.  This will give us better assurance that we will not be fighting Sarcoma again 5 or so years down the road.
Jeremy will have a PET scan within the next few weeks.  This is a full body scan, that will show the presence of active cells (cancer) growing somewhere else in his body, particularly his lungs (where a couple small spots were noticed on a CT scan last week).  Dr. Zlotecki seemed very confident that a PET Scan in a few weeks will show NO cancer anywhere else in his body, even the lungs.
Jeremy was marked for radiation, fitted to a machine and given the "what to expects" of radiation.  He will go once a day, five days a week, for 28 days.  After radiation and rest, we trust that the tumor will have shrunk and nearly died, if not more, for efficient removal.  The best case scenario, is that the tumor will respond to radiation (shrink) allowing the surgeon to remove the entire tumor "on a block" without touching any cancerous cells (as doing so could result in leakage of cancer 'seeds' - causing increased likelihood of recurrence/spreading).  There may be a small layer of muscle removed, but this should have little effect on the functionality of his back muscles.
At the end of today's appointment, after saying goodbye to the doctor, he stuck his head back in the room and said (of the PET scan and radiation therapy), "It's going to be good".
I wanted to dance out of that doctor's office!  This is no doubt an aggressive cancer, with potential to do great harm.  But we feel we have caught this in time to have an effective treatment and complete removal of Lipo Sarcoma.  Thank you God!  I believe the peace and confidence I felt yesterday, was God revealing the results that today's meeting with the doctor confirmed.  We give God all the glory for today's encouraging news.  Our hope is in God, not in doctor's reports or tests.  But today, our hope and confidence was confirmed and met with a positive outlook from the doctor as well.  We're encouraged, energized and ready to continue the unfolding of this amazing testimony.  We will be joyful in hope, patient in this affliction, and faithful in prayer (Romans 12:12).  "Though sorrow may last through the night, His joy comes in the morning." Psalm 30:5