Chemo Day!

Greetings Everyone!

I have attached my dad's update and just wanted to thank him for his faithfulness in giving me (and consequently everyone here) a daily update of Sue's day and how she is doing!! It has meant the world to me and then we can all specifically pray for the things and situations she needs God's helping hand with!! You are awesome dad!! Thanks for all you do! Ashlee & I will tomorrow morning on a 7am flight to Houston, we arrive at 9:30 am and my dad is picking us up and I can hardly wait to see everyone and to see how much Sue has improved since we were last there in the beginning of April!! My family has planned a 16th birthday celebration for Ashlee so she is excited about being able to celebrate her birthday with my whole family!! Should be LOTS of fun! We stay until Monday and we leave on a 9pm flight, so we will have lots of visiting time! We love going to Houston, and we will finally have HOT weather, as spring/summer has been slow in coming here! Thanks so much for your prayers and concern, we all appreciate every reader/prayer warrior here!! I will update you with pictures, stories and Sue's condition from Houston!! Yahoo!


Well this was another barn burner day for Sue, it seems she goes in for one thing and ends up having several things go on. Today was chemo day, Sue and I talked of how she would have her chemo, talk to Dr. Nguyen and we would go home, but no such luck. We got to Dr. Nguyen's office at 9 a.m. and got checked in, there was Sue, Ray, Mom and I and we all went in a room to await Dr. Nguyen. The Dr. came in and briefly examined Sue, and told her she has quite a bit of fluid in between the rib cage and her right lung. The fluid is taking up the area that the lung needs when she inhales and the lung cannot expand because of the fluid. He thinks the fluid is caused by the lymphedema, anyway he said the fluid should be removed, which will help Sue breath normally again and they will test the fluid to see if it is lymphedema or cancer cells creating the fluid. They will do this procedure Friday at 6:30 a.m. at the hospital. They use an ultrasound to see the needle goes in the right area to drain the fluid. So after that bit of news, we also found out Sue's blood levels are down a bit and she will need a transfusion tomorrow (Thursday) morning, this kind of bummed Sue out as she thought she was all done with that. She told the nurses that she thought her road was going to be straight ahead, they all laughed and told Sue the road in treating cancer is never straight and has several bumps along the way.

So Sue had her chemo that went pretty fast and smooth, then we had to go down and register for her blood transfusion and get checked in at the station were she was before. One of our favorite nures Marty greeted Sue with "oh my gosh you look fabulous", and said to be sure and say hi to you, Kaylee. So that brightened Sue up considerably. Then we had to go check in for her Friday fluid removal procedure also, so another long time at the medical places.

I am continuely amazed how Sue handles all this stuff that is coming at her all the time, most of us would have cracked long ago, but not her! She just jumps right back up and says I'm ready for round 2 bring it on. I am sorry Kaylee for going on and on but this is just part of the stuff that she goes through. I am throughly exhausted this evening, so I am about to hit the sack, so far she is just tired after her chemo as she was last time she had it. Her tummy is a bit queasy also, but she had a light dinner consisting of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich ala Dad and a Ginger ale. I send my love to you all and God bless you all. Doug

Prayer Requests:

Please pray that Sue's blood levels will go back to normal, it is her hemoglobin (red blood cells) that are down, that she will have minimal side effects with the chemo, that her fluid removal procedure goes great and they easily remove the fluid and that they fluid is indeed lymph fluid and it does not return! Pray Sue's energy level will return and she can do all the things plus more that she was doing before the fluid filled her chest cavity! We so appreciate and need your prayers for Sue! We are so thankful for all of you!