My brother Jim, Nan and Jimmy are here visiting and encouraged me to update my blog. I guess it's been awhile.
This week we completed the 4th round of chemo consisting of five days of 400 mg Temozolomide. After the 2nd round, it took many weeks to get my white blood count above 3. The dose was reduced to 300 mg for the delayed 3rd round. It took only one extra week to get my white blood count above 3 after the 300 dose.
My shoulder is doing much better after a loud crack (of internal scar tissue?) during physical therapy. I was able to help take down five trees/bushes at a friends house. That was fun. So long as I work my arms from my waist to my head height, I do ok. Doing any work at ground level is difficult.
We've got a weird problem with my left lung causing shortness of breath after physical activity. A part of the bottom is stuck together. The chemo doctor did a CT (CAT) scan and found it (but no CATs, fortunately).
No cancer growth was found in the latest MRI. I asked the doctor if I would ever be healthy enough to go back to work. He strongly recommended we wait until after six rounds of chemo were completed to make that evaluation.
We're grateful to all the family and friends who helped fix things around the house since I became sick: front gate, front door gap, freezer, grill, irrigation, rocks, and others.
I'm especially grateful to all my friends who play board games with me! Thanks to the wives that allow them time away to provide service to me!
I've fallen behind on reading the scriptures. :-( I didn't want to make a post without the reading. I decided to jump to where I should be (end of Mosiah) from where I am (the beginning of Mosiah). I will close the gap this month. If you've fallen behind, you could do something similar. Or just start on page 202. See Matthew 20.
I read aloud page 202 of 531 of the Book of Mormon today. The four son's of Mosiah travel throughout the land confessing and repenting of their sins as well as explaining the prophecies and scriptures. They then ask their father King Mosiah if they can preach the word of God to the Lamanites, who they had been at war with for hundreds of years.
