Three Doctors Said, “You Have Cancer!”

Three Doctors Said, “You Have

Cancer!”, but.. The Battle Belongs to the LORD!

-2 Chronicles 20

By Dorothy and David Vicente

In September of 2021, my husband, David, began telling me that he was not feeling well. He expressed concerns about feeling he needed to go but was unable to. Well, I basically “poopooed” off his comment and thought nothing of it because he has always been a healthy eater and never suffered from irregularity. By the time October came my husband was fighting an internal battle and I was still blinded to the seriousness of his situation. That is until one morning when I received a phone call from my daughter. She said, “Mom, dad called me to pick him up from Los Osos High School. He got up at 4 A.M. this morning and took the dogs on the walking trail. I picked them up. They are home now, but he is not feeling good. His behavior is not normal. You need to get him help!” When I got home from work, I took him to the emergency room. They checked

him over and released him with instructions to follow up with his primary doctor. Eventually we were able to get an appointment with his primary doctor. This was now in December. David had lost over 30 pounds. He was eating very little to help his digestive system. The doctor immediately had David go in for blood work, then a full body scan MRI. Each treatment takes a timely process for the referral and getting available dates for procedures. By February, David had the MRI and it revealed he had two different black spots. One in his left urethra and one in the lower colon. Referrals were then made for the urologist and for a colonoscopy. Another few weeks pass before he is able to go for his colonoscopy. A delay then occurred because David was not vaccinated. Time continues to move on while David is battling internal disruptions to his body’s natural

flow. This was when his primary doctor literally screamed at him over the phone saying, “You are dying! You have to get this colonoscopy procedure, or you will die!” The doctor agreed to a current negative covid testing conducted by the hospital and in early June David had a colonoscopy. As I was waiting in the parking lot, I got the phone call that the doctor wanted to speak with me. They took me where David was recovering and the doctor asked me to sit down. He told me David has a very large mass on his lower colon that must come out immediately. He said he had performed many colonoscopies and David’s mass is cancer. That I need to prepare myself and David because it is very serious. He sent a sample to the lab and we were to make a follow up appointment to discuss the next steps. I thanked him and told him I know it is not cancer. He gave

me a sincere look of empathy. In July, David and I go back to the office where the doctor shared the lab results with us. He stated, “The lab work showed no signs of cancer, but I want you to get another colonoscopy so I can lift the lining of the colon and get a sample from underneath.” We smiled, said ok but it is not cancer. David gets his second colonoscopy in July. August was a busy medical month for David. In mid-August, David had outpatient surgery for the removal of his kidney stone. The urologist right after surgery said all went well, however, David’s kidney stone was one of the biggest he had ever had to remove. Within 2 weeks of the kidney stone removal, David was in the office of the surgeon that would be removing the mass in his colon. She says to David, “You have cancer and we need to get you in surgery ASAP!” I replied, “He does not have cancer. We got back the lab results and it was not cancer. Do you have results from the second colonoscopy that they did not tell us about?” She said no that she was looking at the results from the first colonoscopy. The report which included pictures caused her professional viewpoint to tell us that it is cancer and it must be

removed immediately. We thanked her and respectfully told her it was not cancer. I shared that we are Christians and we are believing God for David. One full year after David expressed to me that he was having trouble with always battling constipation, on September 7, 2022, David went in for surgery. The surgery was 5 hours long. The doctor came out and once again told me it was cancer based on her years of experience. That she sent it to the lab along with some samples from his surround-

ing lymph nodes to let us know if it was spreading. She said she needed to remove a portion of his colon and the lab results will verify if it is cancer. I thanked her and went to be by my husband’s bedside. He gave me the sweetest smiles through out the evening. Those smiles were smiles of relief that it was finally over and smiles of his love for me. Those smiles spoke volumes to my heart. Those sweet smiles and sparkling eyes were the windows to his heart letting me know how grateful he was that God had brought him through this long medical journey and he was thankful that I was by his side each step of the way. The third day of his hospital stay the doctor came by to check on him with great news from the lab results. She told David the blockage was not cancer and no signs of cancer were found in the lymph node samples. He was cancer free. She smiled and was genuinely happy for David. What a day of rejoicing it was for David and I. Three different doctors looked at the growth and knew from their years of experience that he had cancer. With prayers from friends and family, meditating on God’s Word, speaking and listening to healing scriptures, my husband was given a cancer free bill of health. To God be all the Glory. David is an overcomer because of the precious Blood of Jesus Christ. 1Peter2:24 KJV states, “Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness by whose stripes yewere healed.” Isaiah 53:5 KJV states, “By His stripes we are healed.” My husband and I appreciate and respect the years of education and dedication doctors have behind their belts as they daily help people recover from illnesses to the human body. However, the final word is the Word

the LORD, the great Physician, Jesus Christ our LORD and Savior. He is Jehovah Rapha – The Lord who heals! To God be all the Glory! If you are currently walking through a medical journey, stand strong on God’s Word. Remember Jehovah Nissi – The Lord is my banner! Deuteronomy 20:4 NIV states, “For the LORD your God is the one who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies togive you victory.” Your enemy is sickness and disease! Matthew 4:23 KJV, “And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the Kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease amongthe people. Hebrews 13:8 tells us that, “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, and today and forever.” Healing is for us today through Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour. Mark 9:23 KJV - “Jesus saith unto him, if thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.” Him is whosever will believe, that is you and that is me! A personal favorite scripture that David and I have stood on during his journey is from Psalm 91:15-16 KJV: “He shall call upon me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honor him. With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.” Long life, yes, amen, David and I are in our retirement season of life and we are claiming that promise for our lives in Jesus name. I conclude with a prayer for you the reader from 3 John 2 KJV: “Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.” Stand strong and remember the battle belongs to the LORD! 2 Chronicles 20. Dorothy Vicente AKA Mrs. David Vicente Rancho Cucamonga, CA November 4, 2022