8 down 0 to go.

While chemo 8 was terrible, it's so nice to be done with this phase. Hopefully this will be it. I get scanned sometime near the end of the month or early September. I got really sick on Thursday and threw-up several times. It was horrible. Felt a little better on Friday and went to work. Saturday and Sunday were the usual bad days with nausea and gloppy feeling. Taste buds were non existance and GI track is raw. Also, my low grade fever returned last night. BUT I'M DONE FOR NOW!! AND SO MANY BLESSINGS. No weight loss, I weighed 175 on Thursday; no mouth sores; not too much numbness in hands and feet; I never became sick even though I had neutropenia the entire time; I never missed a treatment. Thank you Lord!!! Thank you everyone for thoughts and prayers. Please continue to pray for complete healing. This is a picture from my senior year in high school...1984. In this picture is a friend who just reconnected with me and sent me an amazing care package. After we both took 1st in state for wrestling, we jumped off a 65 foot tower in the middle of a reservoir in Hawaii. One good thing about illness is it brings old friends back together. 

Time flies.......

I can't believe it's been three months since I started my first chemo treatment on May 1st. Time does fly when you are dreading the next infusion. Number 7 was about the same, but no tossing the cookies thanks to anti-nausea drugs. Vitals were good as I weighed in at 176 and hair is still growing. Two awesome blessings over the past few weeks. First, I reconnected with one of my best friends from Hawaii. It was so good to talk with him. I can't wait to visit him sometime and talk about all the fun we had growing up in Hawaii. Second, friends of my parents (and my friends too) were in town visiting family and they brought my family an entire meal. That was so thoughtful and really helped make for a wonderful night. Andrea continues to treat me like a king. Pray for her as well as I'm sure I'm not easy to take care of. She boils my drinking water and makes ice cubes for me as well as keeping me well fed.

Thanks to everyone that has wished me well, prayed for me, or just made me laugh. It all helps soooo much. Chemo #8 is a few days away. Hopefully, that will be the last. They will do another CT/PET scan around August 20th to see if the cancer has been defeated. 

On a lighter side,  as usual, I was able to do a little fishing. This picture was taken by Jeremy on beautiful night when we both went out fishing on the paddle boards. I'm so thankful to God for special moments he gives me. I enjoy the beauty of His creation!!