Oct 22

Hello to everyone. We are here in the infusion center about to be finished with Mark's chemo. He is doing well. They were going to draw a CEA today, but Mark refused it and said he didn't want it to be done. He is so stubborn. He wants to wait until next week at his 4th infusion. arghhhhh!!!!! I did not say anything. I just smiled at his nurse and kept my mouth shut for it is his body and his cancer and I am just the wife and supporter. That was hard to do, but I thought I did an awfully good job today since inside I wanted to pinch him or scream at him. Anyway, we will know in due time. The reality of it is, Mark is doing better and no one can argue with that. He has had a very noticeable improvement over the past few days. Yesterday he asked his parents to go to lunch with him at McAlister's and they had a lunch outing. He also wanted to take a walk outside last night and we walked to the end of the block and back. These are HUGE improvements for Mark as he has pretty much been sitting in a chair all day or sleeping in the bed. His color is better, his pain seems to be less and you can just tell he feels a little better. When we walked into the infusion center today, Andrea (his infusion nurse) right away said he looked much better. His weight was stable at 168. We had hoped for a gain, but the fact that he didn't lose was encouraging.

Tonight is the Jr. High game against Opelika. Mark is hoping that he feels good enough to make the game tonight as it will be Calen's last football game this year. We will see how it goes. We should be finished here just after 3pm.

Thanks to all of you who continue to support us through this journey and have prayed for Mark. We feel very blessed. Casey, thanks so much for the email today. I was cracking up so hard while reading it today. I miss you guys so much!!!!! Please remember Carly Parker in your prayers. She had spots show up on her follow up chest CT and now they are waiting to find out what this means. God bless!!!!!