4 down, 2 to go!

On Thursday, December 27, Mom went in for her 4th round of Chemo. The nurse was a little concerned about giving her the treatment with all the past weeks problems. The nurse checked with the Dr and he said since her blood cell counts have been and are up then she could go ahead. One thing Mom did not want to happen was to postpone the chemo at all. She is still a bit breathy with the pneumonia and is having spinal headaches still. But she is in good spirits! Mom has my Dad off for the next little while during the Holiday break, and Aunt Elaine is staying with them until Jan 6th. She has a lot of love and support right now, and we are grateful!

Thanks for all your thoughts and prayers!

Happy New Year!

**Julie's Family**

Trip to the ER

Mom went to the Emergency Room last night. She hasn't been feeling well the last week, more than just her new normal tiredness and Chemo symptoms. She was running a fever so her oncologist told her to go to the hospital. They gave her royal treatment and did everything with haste. They did chest ex rays and pulled several tubes of blood to run test. She has had severe headaches and they were concerned it might be Meningitis. So they did a spinal tap. They discovered she has pneumonia and put her on an antibiotic. We waited a long while for the meningitis test to come back. The blood work showed that her red blood cell count was normal, which was great news. Had the count been low they would have admitted her right then. The Spinal Tap came back clear. No Meningitis. They let her go home around 2am this morning. She has been resting today and will need to take it easy the little while. Mom will be contacting the oncologist to see if she will be postponing the next Chemo treatment that is scheduled for Dec. 27th. Please keep her in your thoughts and prayers!

**The Hempel Family**

Half way through. Woo Hoo!!!

I had my third chemo session yesterday. Only three more to go. This is flying by quickly. (For all of you) For me, just taken' it a day at a time. I usually feel just a little weak on the 2nd day after chemo, so I can do a few things. But I still have to pace myself. Thank you for all of your comments and prayers. This thing is not going to get me down. I'm going to flly through this and be better for it in the end. All my love to all of you. Julie