PROGRESS!!!

Well we are here again... at CTCA and I am sitting with Arnie while he is getting his cancer treatment. We are waiting for lunch, which they bring to those who are getting infusions during meal time.

The weather is interesting -- really warm yesterday with wind. Then this morning we woke up @3:30 our time to rain and wind. We were scheduled to begin our day here by 5:30 central time so we had to get up and out of the hotel before the sun came up!! I am not a morning person, so that was a struggle for me!!

We got here and had the port access and blood draw, then saw the doctor who gave us really good news... the CEA has gone down again!! It has been dropping ever since we began the treatment with Erbitux which causes dry skin and a rash but those side effects are much easier to put up with when you know the drug is actually working on the cancer! The CEA had been as high as 36 and has dropped steadily. The reading today was 11.

We praise God for the good news! We have one more treatment 2 weeks from today, and then 2 weeks later, we have scans. That will tell us where we go from here regarding the future treatments.

We thank you for your continued prayers and concerns shown towards us! Please keep in touch and mostly remember us in your prayers! God is good and He answers prayer!