Feb 15

Hello everyone. Just a quick update on Mark. He is doing much better. He had the usual chemo course where he felt pretty lousy Monday through Wednesday with Wednesday being his roughest day and slowly recovering Thursday and Friday. He was able to go in and teach on Tuesday and Thursday during the chemo. He got Colton to practice Thursday evening and went to Colton's basketball game Friday night, so you can see he doesn't let it keep him down much. When he's home, he totally crashes and pretty much just stays in bed. It really wears him out.

He is feeling much better this weekend and we hope to have a good week. Friday will be the day we got talk to Dr. Farmer about changing his chemo. Next time he will be getting different medications. Hopefully these will work better on the cancer and get the marker down to normal. He has been getting some pain or discomfort in his right upper quadrant intermittantly. He thinks it's just the scar tissue from the surgery last May. It is also the location he has the biliary duct stent from when he was first diagnosed and his bile duct closed off. I don't know how many of you saw him when he was totally yellow, but that is why the stent is there.

Mark has a lot planned in the upcoming months. This weekend we are taking the kids and going to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. We won't be there for the actual Mardi Gras, but will get to see some of the parades. The kids are excited and we will get to see many of Mark's relatives, although Jeanne and Maureen are still in Kazastan and we will miss them. The following weekend is Colton's first baseball tournament and also Colton's birthday and the following week Mark and I will leave for Europe. We are getting really excited about that!!!!

Please continue to keep Mark in your prayers as always. We pray that the new medication will be easy on Mark's body and the right treatment for him. Pray for all of our friends out there fighting this terrible disease. God bless!!!!!!!!!!!!!