Just wanted to give you a quick update and ask for your prayers for us.
As you may know, we had a good report from the biopsy taken a couple weeks ago, which showed no recurrence of cancer in the colon. Arnie had been hospitalized and while there, they took a biopsy because the doctor thought there was cancer again in the colon. Well, praise God, he was wrong! There is some inflammation but no cancer in that area.
The metastasized cancer in the ribs is still present and being treated by Stivarga. We will be having a PET scan done later this week to see the status of the cancer after having been treated with this drug. Seems like about every side effect is rearing it's ugly head and even in spite of the supplements and the measures taken to minimize the effects, they are there and are very annoying, to say the least. It is easy to become very disappointed and discouraged at this point.
I would ask you to please remember us in your prayers. We both need strength and courage as we go on with this journey. I need to be encouraging and strong for Arnie and there are times that I feel like I fall very short. We always intend to leave it all with the Lord, but then we turn around and take it back and worry.
Thanks to each of you for your love and concerns and especially for your prayers!
