Waiting for scan results is a fear no family ever truly gets used to.
It doesn’t matter how many times you’ve done it. The days leading up to the scan feel heavy. The waiting afterward feels endless. Every hour stretches longer than it should. For families walking through childhood illness, waiting can feel like holding your breath for weeks.
Mac’s family knows that feeling well.
Mac is only five years old—yet hospital halls and MRI rooms are already familiar to her. Places no child should know by heart. Places that have become part of her story far too early.
A Summer Filled With Fear and Questions
This past summer was especially hard.
An earlier scan raised frightening questions—questions no parent wants to hear, questions that linger late at night when the house is quiet and worry has room to grow. As the next MRI approached, the weight of those questions followed Mac’s family everywhere.
Every prayer whispered in the dark carried the same hope.
Every moment of waiting carried the same fear.
When scan day arrived this month, it carried the weight of an entire summer.
The News They Were Hoping For
And then—relief.
Mac’s MRI results came back stable.
No growth.
No new spots.
For families walking this road, stable is not just a medical word. It is a moment to exhale. A pause in the storm. A reminder that today, things are holding steady.
It doesn’t mean the fight is over. But it means that for now, the ground beneath their feet is firm.
