Just Waiting

Last August my family met up for our annual camping trip and Nate wasn't feeling very well, but we decided to go anyway, thinking he just had a cold.  In the 24 hours we were there he got progressively worse.  He slept just about the entire time we were there.  He was freezing and yet still managed to sweat through 3 layers of clothes, including a sweatshirt.  And in the end we left early because I was really worried about him... he looked like death.

When we got back we took him to the walk-in and they diagnosed him with a severe bacterial infection and gave him a good long dose of antibiotics.  A few days later his blood test results came back and found that he had prostatitis, a bacterial infection of the prostate.  Soon after Nate was done with the weeks and weeks of antibiotics the chills and fevering began again... and again the doctor wrote him a long dose of antibiotics.  Again the same thing happened and the doctor decided to run another blood test revealing that his PSA's were still too high.  Needless to say that brings us to now... after months and months of antibiotics and a CT scan later.  Nate just got back from the doctor and the CT scan revealed that his kidneys were healthy (they were thinking it was an infection in his kidneys), but that his prostate is enlarged (the doctor said it looked like a 50 year olds'.)

The next step is a series of biopsies (neither of which sound fun... I'll spare you the details) to check for cancer, which the Singers have a family history of.  Nate's father was actually diagnosed while Nate was on his mission, but fought through and is now doing great.  Nate's been sick about this whole thing and he's normally the positive "everything will be okay" one... you can only imagine how I've been. 

So if you could, would you keep Nate in your prayers?  We've prayed about it a lot and really feel like everything will eventually work out, but Nate could still use some help (if only for some peace of mind) and we'd greatly appreciate it.  I love you, babe, and I know that everything will be okay.