Saturday, Sept. 29th (Day -4)

Kasey is doing well.

She's getting her 3rd dose of chemo now (and taking a little nap). She has experienced some nausea this morning, so they gave her a little extra medication . But we all know that even though this chemo is 10 times stronger than any she has had before, nothing is as powerful as the the Lord our God!! So we took a good dose of His medicine (the Word), as well.

Everything is still going as planned. Her bloodwork continues to be fine. I don't know how many times in the last month we have gone in to see a new doctor or nurse, and their eyes go back and forth between Kasey and I. Then they have to ask, "Which one is the patient?" When they find out, they always say, "Oh my gosh!!! You look fantastic!!!

Last Sunday, Kasey had to have blood tests after the week of stem cell collection. We watched a group of five or six different patients get told, "Well, your counts are down, so you need to come in for platelets, blood, etc." Kasey looked at me and said, "My counts are fine." And they were!

She did post that her platelets were a little low, but that wasn't the reason for not getting admitted on Monday. The doctor told me last Friday evening that after collection of the cells, the next step would be to go to SCT clinic for admission on Monday. Well, actually it was kind of a pre-admission, with the actual admission being on Wednesday. (Sometimes his English is hard to understand).

Actually, it gets kind of boring for us here, so give us a call sometime. They haven't said a word about having our cell phones in here. We use them quite a bit. I know Kasey would love to hear from all of you.

Thanks for the continued thoughts and prayers.

Kevin