Hi to all!!! Mark is slowly gaining steam and starting to feel a little bit better every day now. It took him quite a while of being down to get to this point, but I think we're finally making some progress. His appetite is still a challenge. We saw Dr. Farmer today for his checkup and he is down 32 lbs since surgery. He is very thin!!!! She was concerned about this too. She wanted to start him on Marinol which is the pill form of marijuana to help with his appetite. Mark was a little hesitant of this and she assured him it was totally legal. She did not have the samples available to start him on, so she decided to try something else first. We are trying an appetite stimulant over the weekend and if it works we will get a Rx, if not we will try the Marinol. (I can see the jokes coming now from the department).
Mark has a test scheduled for tomorrow morning to check all the suture lines and make sure everything is healed so that we can schedule the second surgery.
We are hanging in there and hoping to resume some normalcy soon. Our biggest concern now is getting the weight back on Mark so that he can withstand the second surgery and then more chemotherapy after that.
Thanks again for all of the support and prayers. God bless!!!
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dear Bertus family:
the prayers of your brothers and sisters at St Michael's continue for you all. You are sources of grace for everyone else. And that grace return to you.
In Christ,
randy beard
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