Peace in the valley...

Let me first start out by thanking you all for your prayers and support. Kayden is doing well and currently having tons of fun playing with Mr. Don and Ms. Jocey. He started getting pretty grumpy about an hour before going down for his ct scan, but fell asleep in my arms and pretty much slept until I put him on the table to be put "to sleep." The tests went well, and Kayden woke up normally (which means very grumpy and dopey). He was so very hungry when they finally let him eat that when he was handed a package of crackers, he put the crackers in his mouth, wrapper and all! I had to pull it out and open it for him. :)
The ct scan was what we could have hoped for! The right kidney looks clean (although they will check it in surgery), the lungs look clean, and it seems that only the left kidney is currently infected. Our oncologist showed us the ct pictures, and it is CRAZY how large the tumor is! We could see the whole rt kidney which showed up white on the picture, and hardly any white showed at all on the left because it has been taken over by the tumor! Surgery is scheduled tomorrow at about 1:30, which means another morning of no food for little man. The surgery should last about 4-5 hours, so I will try to update again tomorrow night.
Depending on how the surgery goes, it looks like Kayden will have stage 2 cancer, but could possibly be stage 3. The two factors that could bump him up are 1 if the lymph nodes and/or other organs around have been effected, or 2 if the tumor bursts or is "spilled" in the removal of the kidney.
He will have a several day recovery in the hospital, depending on how it goes tomorrow. After that we are looking at chemotherapy treatments for at least 18 weeks, depending on the stage of the cancer.

Those of you who live close by us, we are still planning our move this weekend thanks to the help and love of our church family, so sat. at 9 is the plan at our current home. Any help, trucks, trailers that can come will be very appreciated! Thank you all!
Those of you in the Portland area who would like to visit, please let us know!
And those wanting specific prayer requests, they are as follows: Please pray first for lots of rest for the surgeons tonight so they can be very alert and aware in the morning. Also pray for their hands to be steady so that no other organs are injured (which would mean the removal of those injured organs), that the tumor would not be spilled or burst, that there would be no severe bleeding, and that everything would go just how the surgeons are anticipating it to go. Our main surgeon told us he is very optimistic, so that is nice.

The Lord is good because through this whole process I have felt his peace and strength. Praise be God who has known of this before this happened and has been preparing the little details for us, who is with us now and who also knows the outcome! That is the God worth serving! Thank you again for your thoughts, prayers and support!