Health Update 2

Thank you for all the kind words and encouragement from my update. We really appreciate your support, friendship and prayers.

Today has been a difficult day along this journey. We met with both my oncologist and surgeon to hear the results of my latest scan. Our hope was that the tumor would have responded to the chemotherapy enough to expedite surgery. The results were not what we were hoping for. The scan showed that the tumor has actually grown slightly, rather than retract. It is possible that the tumor grew in the space of time between my first scan and my first chemo treatment, and that the chemo actually worked to keep the tumor from growing more. Regardless, we are not in the place we had hoped to be at after chemotherapy.

Our meeting with the doctors was helpful, and we were able to ask every question that we could think to ask. They have suggested that the next step should be 4-5 treatments of both radiation and oral chemotherapy. We are grateful for the doctor's wisdom and willingness to fight with us.

We remain hopeful, and prayerful. Thank you for joining us in prayer. Our desire is that this next course of treatment will cause the tumor to retract and move us closer to surgery.