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Thank you to everyone for keeping us in your thoughts and prayers! We appreciate every time you reach out to let us know you're praying or thinking of us--you are the best support system we could imagine![...]
Going in for a bone scan now (11 am) to check up on why Peter's vertebrae broke. Prayers for an excellent report please, friends! Thank you all![...]
Hey everyone, we've got some news.
Peter has had pain in his neck, which we mentioned to our primary doctor yesterday. They ordered an X-ray, and we just found out his diagnosis is a "displaced C7 spinous process fracture." According to our searching, "it's a stable fracture, commonly called clay-shovelers fracture." One of the protruding parts of the bone in his spine is broken. But it doesn't affect his nerves, and starting tomorrow Peter will need to wear a neck collar as much as possible. We believe it happened about a week and a half ago (while on an easy walk of all things!). The doctors say it should only take a few weeks to mend. They actually don't expect or need the bone to fuse back together, the major concern is ligament repair.[...]
Some of you may have seen Peter's Facebook status asking for prayer about an hour ago. Thank you for praying! Since then, we got in touch with his doctor (the Cancer Center has the BEST after hours system--so thankful), he took some medicine and he is doing MUCH better. His temperature is in a better range, we have stayed home and he is sleeping now which is really good. Please keep praying for rest, no fever, and no breathing problems or nausea. (And you can pray for Esther to have a great night staying with our friends, and that her teeth come all the way in and stop bugging her too!) Thank you so very much everyone! [...]
From Peter:
Last week we reported that the main tumor marker went up from 60,000 to 184,000. We were told in the beginning that one round of chemo might cause an increase of markers into the bloodstream, so we weren't caught off guard.[...]
From Peter:
The third (main) tumor marker went up, but they told us it probably would after the first round of chemo. Apparently breaking apart and killing tumors and cancer cells can release extra markers into the blood stream like a cloud of dust during demolition. Everyone here is confident.[...]
From Peter:
Gained weight, white blood count quadrupled to normal, tumor markers went down. God is fighting for us!![...]
Hey everyone!
Things have been going so very, very well. This is our longest break between chemo days, 9 days in a row off, and it's been great to see Peter regain strength and rest up. He's even been able to watch Esther for a few short periods of time while I do something in another room, or go for a walk by himself, and those little bits of normalcy have been so good for us! I even went to work for a few hours Tuesday after taking a few weeks off and it was SO GOOD for me.[...]
We are home!! Yay! Peter's white blood count is still seriously low (1.5, it should be at least 4) but it has stopped decreasing and he has been fever-free for 24 hours so home they sent us. He's feeling so much better and we are planning to lay low and rest so his body can build up its strength before he begins his next chemo cycle in 8 days. We have to be ridiculously cautious about exposing him to any potential infections, so we can't see many people right now, but we love you all! Specific prayer points are no infections, for his white blood count to increase to healthy levels, for the tumor markers in his blood to go down (that means chemo is working!), and for miraculously fast healing, with no cancer or tumors in his body! Also pray for my health and Esther's health to stay strong, and for us all to sleep better. Thank you everyone![...]
Hey all. Peter received his bleo treatment today, and by 7 pm was experiencing extreme chills, fatigue and had a fever of 100.7. Because his white blood counts were low we were sent to the ER and I'm so grateful we are here. He started vomiting, but thankfully we have it under control right now. I haven't heard for sure but I expect we will be admitted.[...]
