2/5-Next Phase of Treatment

Hi All,

Here is a quick update to let you know what's coming up. This week I'm getting scanned a bunch. It's part of the re-study that the Doctor is doing to see where we are at now. Pray all is well and that I am not in any way being harmed by all this scanning. I go tomorrow for a Cat-Scan. I go Wed. to get an injection for a Thurs. Octriotide scan. And Friday I go back to Dr. Rigberg to go over all the results. Then he has me tentatively scheduled to start Chemo with Radiation on Monday the 12th. I will go in at 9 am for Chemo. This should take about 2 hours. Then I will go to Dr. Lum's office and get radiation within an hour of the chemo. Then Tues. through Fri. I will only do the radiation. This will continue for 6 weeks total. Some of the radiation side effects you can start praying for are tiredness, heartburn or reflux (since it will be right by my esophagus), sore throat. Mostly please be praying about the long-term effects of all of this. Being such a radical treatment it could possibly cause other problems down the road. I would appreciate prays against anything at all like that.

The family is doing great through it all. Thanks for praying about that too. This next phase of treatment will be a lot to juggle with the kids. I have some friends lined up to help with the Mondays. And the Tues. - Fri. routine will hopefully be early enough that Larry will be able to fill in for me. The radiation is a pretty quick process from what I understand. I takes all of twenty min. if that. I hope!

May the Lord bless you all abundantly!! Lots of love, Peggy