From Kris............

Response to chemotherapy treatments are positive. There is noticeable shrinkage in many nodules. My oncologist's recommendation is to continue with the current cocktail after a two week break.

This is good news, right? 

There is no cure for this cancer, chemo is just buying time. I have not felt good at all this week. It is taking longer and longer to recover from treatment. Is this time worth the price? I don't know. If I feel better during my two week break, why would I go back? I don't know. Is more time better than good time? I don't know.

Week 26 Chemo

Kris and her younger sister Tricia who is the artist of week #26 Chemo Buddy.

We will know on Wednesday if the new treatment has done anything more for her than make her bald.

Chemo Buddies and a decision.

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3 promises    how does one get excited about a new option when it is called a cytotoxic? Abraxane is it's name. I'm having a difficult time wrapping my head around the idea that when the first choice of treatment fails there is hope in the second choice. And then hope in a third choice.

Knowing so many people are praying for me helps. Knowing that you are praying for specific things helps even more. Wednesday is chemo day. I hate chemo and I'm sure it hates me. Knowing that you pray for chemo to pass through God's hands before it enters my body is of great comfort to me.

I feel numb today. I feel lost. I feel like throwing a tantrum, screaming of the great injustice. I won't. I will sit here quietly and think about 3 promises.

#1)   I,Joe, take you Kris, to be my wedded wife. To have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness or in health, to love and to cherish 'till death do us part. And hereto I pledge you my faithfulness.

#2)  Romans 8:37-39

No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us.

And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.

 #3) I will fight.

I will sit here and think of those three promises. I am not lost. I am found. I am comforted.

Chemo Buddies.

Today they told her the Chemo is not working.

In Remembrance of Roe V Wade

Chemo Buddies.

In no particular order.  I like to think it is helping.  She was able to go on a trip with her husband this week.  He was going for schooling in his job and she accompanied him.  Her sister went with them so she would not be alone during the day.
I praise God for every day he gives to us.  Life is so precious.

A little boy wanted $100.00 very badly and prayed for weeks, but nothing happened .

Then he decided to write God a letter requesting the $100..00.

When The postal authorities received the letter addressed to God, USA, 
they decided to send it to President Obama.

Obama was so amused that he 
instructed his secretary to send the little boy a $ 5.00 bill.

He thought this would appear to 
be a lot of money to a little boy.

The little boy was delighted 
with the $5.00 bill and sat down to write a thank-you note 
to God, which read:

Dear God:

Thank you very much for sending the money.However, I noticed that for some reason you sent it through

Washington, D.C. and those 
assholes took $95.