Larry Hardy's Personal update:

June 2, 2014

Dear Friends & Prayer Partners:

As many of you know, middle of April, I had an MRI to find out why I was having such severe sciatic nerve pain in my hips and legs. I was told at that time that I have a sixth tumor about the size of the end of my thumb located between four and five Lumbar in the center of my spine. Because of the location of the tumor and the twisting of the spine, they gave me some medication to hopefully reduce the swelling relieving the pressure that it was being applied to the sciatic nerves going down my back and into my hips and legs. It was also decided to do 10 radiation treatments as an experiment to see if it would reduce, slow down or if the tumor would react to the treatment. Last Friday I went back and had another MRI and I should get a reading on any action or results of the radiation treatments Tuesday or Wednesday.

For some reason, unknown, I have once again been under very severe sciatic pain nerve that is going down my hips and into both of my calves in my legs making it almost impossible to walk. Why now and what is causing this to happen, I don’t know. Hopefully, I will get some clear-cut answers on Tuesday or Wednesday from Dr. John. Hopefully find out what is going on in my back with this cancer. I am very thankful for my very dear friend Bob, who has loaned me a walker that I can either sit or push so that I can be somewhat mobile. I find myself sitting and pushing more than I do walking and steering. For when this pain hits the calves in my legs, my legs want to give out from under me.

I am asking all of my prayer partners to pray for wisdom and direction on what the next move should be for me. When I see the doctor this week, I will need God’s wisdom to make the right decisions for the future. But I must also tell you, of the many, many, many times that God has opened the doors for me to talk to people I have never met before. And be able to tell them of my gracious, loving, forgiving, and healing father. Why I am going through this, I don’t know. But I do know that he’s using this to touch people’s lives. So also include in your prayers that I will continue to see the open doors to share God’s greatness with others. Sometime in the future, I will give you a couple of examples of how God has allowed me to share His love. For example, to truck drivers, I do not know, driving two Walmart trucks somewhere in Illinois that called me and we talked for 45 minutes on three-way calls about the grace of God, healing, eating healthy and having a sound positive mind.

After the doctors report this next week, I will pass on an update and will keep you informed of what’s going on in my life and body. I know that I’m in the Palm of God’s hands and that He has everything under control. I am not afraid of this cancer or of death, but I am very much disliking and have a hard time handling pain. I’m a very active person with many things on my do list, and having to sit and be still to reduce the pain level is driving me nuts.

Thank you for your prayers, love, and concerns.

Larry & Juanita Hardy
425-271-2489