Survivor week 41 day 7

God is in control. He allows Barbara to function and enjoy family

This morning Barbara's brother and sister in law came from St Paul to visit her. She has been asking all week if she was going to get to see her brother well today they came and Barbara enjoyed it a lot. Before they left cousin David Herold came and then cousin Carolyn Evans came. We all went to eat lunch in Parsons. Had a great time. Barbara ate protein food for platelet building. I think all we see is David's hands in the picture Alice and Rich were going to Coffeyville for her 50 class reunion

Before we left the resturant my cousin Don and Pat Thompson came into the resturant so we were also able to visit with them for a short time

We came home and Barbara took a nap. But my brother and his wife Judy came to help chip wood. In fact Judy prepared dinner for us while Barbara was napping and Sonny and I worked outside

So a very busy day but Barbara enjoyed visiting with family.

She is tired and has a slight headache but no leg pain

Survivor week 41 day 6

Got up and fixed a protein breakfast for Barbara. She rested and then we ate lunch. Then the health care lady came. Then the nurse came.

Barbara had high blood pressure with the health care lady but it was back to normal when the nurse arrived

Barbara began having a headache this afternoon. She is afraid to go to sleep because the last time she had a serious headache she found out she had cancer. The mri's show that she is cancer free. It is just something we have to work through. The oncologist said that if she developed a mild headache to give her some medicine. I have done that and hope that she.will get some rest

Barbara is excited about the new Awana year that started last night. She cares about those young people

Pray that Barbara will be able to relax and let the medicine work.

Survivor week 41 day 5

Barbara got up and had a good protein laden breakfast. Then she napped. She said that her leg pain was only a 1 on a 10 point scale. We are just glad for the miracle of removing the pain.

The avastin is causing her some upset stomach but we can take medicine for that. She is just tired and trying to eat food that will raise her blood platelets


We had a nice rain today then the sun came out and it was just a wonderful day.

Survivor week 41 day 4

Barbara got up and wanted steak and eggs for breakfast. Remember she needs to build platelets. So for breakfast we had steak and eggs
For lunch we had chicken fried steak then for supper we had Suzzan's famous beef liver and onions.

Protein loaded designed to build platelets. Barbara walked for the therapist but was very tired after the session

She has a very positive attitude and wants to get better so she can work with the Awana kids that start tomorrow night. We will see how much energy she had tomorrow evening

She appreciates all of the prayers and knows that she is in God's plan.

Survivor week 41 day 3

We got up and ate at 5 then again at 9:30. Barbara was tired but we headed to give blood then we had lunch with Sonny and Judy. We enjoyed that

We came home and Barbara went to bed.

We received a call from the oncologist. Barbara's blood platelets have gone down to 52,000. So no chemo this week. We are still on schedule for avastin on Oct 10 but no chemo

No wonder Barbara is tired

Her attitude is still good. in Jeremiah 29 verse 11 it says that God has a plan for each of us and we are to have hope
So Barbara is full of hope because God is in control

We just have to be careful that Barbara doesn't start bleeding. She will continue eating to build blood platelets. Lots of proteins

Survivor week 41 day 2

Let Barbara sleep late and was getting ready to go to church but fell asleep 3 times. We decided it best to get sleep. Not in a church pew

One of the side affects of avastin is that it makes you very sleepy.

Well Barbara is very sleepy.

She continues to have a great appetite
Tomorrow we go for blood test to see if the platelets are over 100,000

Survivor week 41day 1

Barbara slept late. After breakfast she slept until lunch Then she napped but all afternoon she was hungry. I couldn't get enough food in her. I think that she ate 4 times. The doctor told us she would be tired. He also said that it was good that she had an appetite

We went outside about 9 pm and watched the moon. God sure made the sky beautiful.

Sunday is coming.