White Blood Counts are Up; Pain is Down

Jason here...

Thanks again for your continued support.  We continue to be humbled by the outpouring of concern, prayers, and love.  

I wanted to share a positive update, in relative terms.  

Lindsey was able to spend time at the oncology clinic early this week, receive IV fluids, antibiotics, and some extra pain medicine to help her manage the mouth and throat pain.  As a result of the injections over last weekend, her immune system numbers are up again.  (It remains unclear what helped resolve Lindsey’s pain in her throat, particularly. She felt better within a day of antibiotics so maybe this was an infection and just a coincidence this go around). She's far from feeling 100% but she feels markedly better and has been out running errands, taking kids to school, back and forth to playdates, and able to eat and drink again in comfort.  We're thankful for that.  

She still feels a little groggy-headed at times, and can have spells of tiredness.  So, please continue to pray for her and the quality of her days that she could be free from side effects or at least have them minimized.  She's scheduled to have chemo every three weeks which means she's up for the next round at the end of next week.  With that in mind, please pray that the side effects would be far less severe this time around.

Linds had pretty bad side effects during the first round of chemo 18 months ago and then seemed to somehow adjust and not have severe issues to manage through the next five rounds.  We hope that will be the case again. 

We also hope that she could keep her hair through these new cycles of therapy.  Because of the type of chemo she's on, it's not likely she’ll keep her hair but pray that she could. And, if not, pray for her spirits going through this again for a third time.

Thanks again for all of the care for my bride.