Hello everyone. Mark went in for his chemo as usual yesterday. There was a scheduling mix up and we ended up waiting until almost noon until his blood was even drawn and it was close to 1:00 when the chemo was started which meant getting out of there at 5:15 pm. It was a LONG day!!!! Mark did his usual course. He slept after he was given his premedications. He got to talk to Dr. Farmer about the pressure he's been feeling in the pelvic area and getting the urge to go to the bathroom in spite of the fact that he has the ileostomy. She has him set up for a flex sig on Thursday afternoon. It is a shortened form of a colonoscopy where they will just look until they get to the sigmoid colon. We will see how things look.
Mark has been sicker than usual with this chemo. He has his patch on and is using the watch, but has been vomiting quite a bit today. I gave him some pills to help and to make him sleep and he seems a lot better now. He somehow made it up this morning and taught his classes. I don't know how he does it. He is tough for sure!!!!
We didn't have a CEA drawn this time, but will get that blood test with Mark's next chemo. That will be the deciding factor as to what we do next along with the news we get from Pittsburgh (we still haven't gotten their take on the CT scan) and what the colonoscopy shows of course. Dr. Farmer is doing a few more tests with Mark's tumor pathology to see what other chemos he could be a candidate for.
Colton left today with the Plans for Orange Beach. His team is playing in the Global World Series starting Thursday and they will have an opening ceremony tomorrow. We hate that we will miss it. I'm sure the other moms will take lots of pictures. We will leave for the beach on Thursday after Mark's test as soon as he is feeling like riding in the car. (Like I said, he's tough).
Emily is taking private swimming lessons. She is such a daredevil she about gives me a heart attack at the pool. Her teacher now knows what I mean. She will just jump in over her head and tell the teacher to "let go of me, I can do this myself" even though she is about to drown. I hope she learns this swimming thing quickly or I'm in big trouble.
Calen is finished with baseball now. Last weekend was his final tournament and they will have a year end party next week. He is already full speed into football workouts for school ball. It never ends, but he loves every minute of it. He went out and helped with Colton's baseball practice the other day because he was already missing baseball.
Continue to keep Mark in your prayers as always. God bless!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Mark teaches after chemo and I was complaining about having to go teach because I was woked up too early this morning...and yes 'woked up' is a legit phrase.
Sounds like Emily has a bit of her father in her.
I continue to be amazed by Mark's tenacity and endurance. He is a remarkable man. God bless him.
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