Hi Everyone, Mom's finished her second round of chemo treatment this week early this morning and so far, she has been feeling pretty good. They've started giving her some anti-nausea meds right into her port before the chemo, so we are all hoping that this works well for her. Mom is such a trooper! Through all of this her attitude and sweet, upbeat personality has continually amazed me and I am SO proud of her. Her doctors are now looking to prepare her for her second phase of the myeloma treatment which will include a higher dose of chemo and then a bone marrow transplant. Please keep her in your prayers! Mom and all of our family SO appreciate all of you who continually pray for her, help her, encourage her and everything else you have done for her and our family. We are so grateful to be surrounded by such amazing people! Thank you!! Love, Cresta

Hi Everyone, I am SO sorry for not updating this blog. Between helping with Mom & Bud, my own family needs and my work piling on enough projects for 5 people, I've been a bit swamped, but that's NO excuse for leaving you all in the dark! I will try to at least update this weekly for those that want to know how mom is doing. So, a couple of weeks ago, I took her in for chemo, but her tests came back with poor liver function (this was the second time her liver function had gone down). So they made her skip a week of chemo. This actually worked out great for mom because she felt the best she's felt since June! Unfortunately all good things must come to an end and last week her liver was improving so they gave her chemo on Monday. She was SO nervous about it and was pleasantly surprised when she actually felt quite good all week. She had a second dose of chemo on Friday which was much harder on her. She was feeling pretty sick Saturday and Sunday. I have some good news to report, though. She has said that she's feeling much better today. :) I am SO happy to hear that. Love you! Cresta