The visit went well with the Surgeon yesterday. However, they changed the surgery date… I know, what else is new? Her surgery is locked in for Wednesday, May 16th. He was going to be out of town the next day and wants to be around since her surgery is so intense. So, while a little bummed, this should give her another week to bring up her counts to the highest possible. Other good news is her kidneys seem to be back to normal. Thank you all for keeping them in your prayers.

I am asking for a special fast on May 13th, Mother’s Day for Rebecca. Please only participate if you can. Here is an article about fasting, but please participate any way you can. Tell your friends and those that would like to participate. I know that through prayer, together we can help make this major surgery a modern day miracle!

Keep the faith.

Well, I must apologize. It’s been too long if you ask me! I had a business trip and did not have access to the internet 🙂 The things we take for granted now….

Becca met with the Oncologist, we are done with chemo! She will meet with the surgeon on Monday, but tentatively they are planning surgery on Wednesday, May 9th. We will know for sure after her appointment. They have to wait for her body to recover from all the chemo to be put under anesthesia, but they think that date will work. She has been giving blood for labs just about every other day. Becca is also still on the liquid drip twice a day to help her kidneys.

Becca is doing ok considering, just in some pain. But we are looking forward to the surgery just to get it over. Once she is well enough, we can return to Dallas.

Keep her in your prayers!

Well, as always, thing are ‘fluid’ around here 🙂 Becca came home from going in yesterday for chemo. Her main Oncologist transferred back home to Chicago to be with her family. That left us with a new Oncologist, which actually came from MD Anderson in Houston (small world). The new Oncologist is great, she filled the shoes just nicely. But I digress, Becca went in for chemo, but her blood levels were low again. Enough that they had to give her packed platelets and two pints of whole blood. She is also on an antibiotic for a UTI, so they wouldn’t have been able to start the chemo until that was done either (Tuesday). So with the changing of the guards, things weren’t communicated clearly.

So, here we are, once again being patient… or trying to be 🙂 There is bitter/sweet news too. Well, as you know, Becca’s kidney’s aren’t doing well. When they met with her new Oncologist today, that was the topic of discussion. It seems they are a lot worse than we thought. Bad enough that she is going to council with the surgeon. She is going to recommend to him that we terminate the chemo all together. For sure she has cut the last chemo (Ifosomide), which would only leave the two. She is very concerned that the remaining chemo’s would be too harmful to her kidneys and wouldn’t shrink the tumor much any more. So, Friday Becca will meet with the Oncologist to see what she found out with the surgeon. That is good news for us, but bad about the kidneys. We don’t want to have to do dialysis or a transplant. There isn’t any reason for it. Becca has come this far, why jeopardize it for just two more? They are the experts though and we will take all of this in consideration. So if her chemo is done, then they will set a surgery date. After she heals from the surgery we are free to go home.

Please keep praying for her, specifically for her kidneys and the tumor. We are so close, and have not lost faith. Together we can beat this!

1 Cor. 13:7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

Becca is doing pretty well. She is still getting fluids in the attempt to keep her kidneys ‘active’ all the time. She is scheduled to go back in tomorrow for her Methotrexate chemo… last one of these! This will take about 6-7 days before she can go home, but again, it’s up to the chemo leaving her body first.

Each chemo is about a week time period. They cycle two on, a week off. This means three chemo’s will take about a 4 weeks to complete. This would be under normal circumstances, but it just depends if she gets sick in between or how long it takes certain chemo’s to clear from her body. The surgery recovery is between 2 – 10 weeks, depending how difficult it is. As soon as she is well enough after the surgery we should be heading back home to Texas 🙂 Becca will still have to be scanned every three months for the next couple of years, but that seems manageable!

Keep praying!

Becca is doing well today. She is still receiving IV fluids twice a day to help keep her kidney’s working. We just keep praying she can get through the next 3 chemo’s without incident 🙂 Becca will go back in on Friday for her next Methotrexate chemo.

The boys are doing well. Ricky is out of school on a break. Michael is still enjoying playing with his cousins and neighbors. Cameron is just being himself 🙂 He is starting to walk now, so it’s only a matter of time before he is into everything! But you have to love him.

I just want to give a personal thanks to all of you that have stayed with us. I was able to meet with several of you this weekend and it meant a lot to hear all the kind words you have for our family. Know that we appreciate the help and rely on your strength, prayers, and relationships to help us get through these difficult times. Please continue to pray for Becca. We love you.