Tuesday Evening Update

Marilee made her trek to the Huntsman Clinic this afternoon - visited with the nursing staff and Dr. Ward and had blood tests done. The end result of the visit was that Dr. Ward indicated that he was"cautiously optimistic" with her status and recovery. Her pain level is down considerably to what it has been and she actually looked "very pretty" with some color in her face and some strength to make the trip down to the clinic and Kelli got hear back to her house and then it was time for a nap. She reports back to the clinic next Tuesday for a checkup and to schedule her next chemo treatment. Dr, Ward still didn't have a primary sources for the cancer and so I guess we will not know and continue to work on the treatments. Dr. Ward had a cancer doctor from main land China following him around. He said that he was bringing doctors in from all over the world to give Marilee the best of care.

But before the nap, Jenna was done about 4:oo P.M. after about three hours of surgery. The Doctor felt good about the ear surgery and that it was done before any more damage could occur. She is in the hospital tonight and she had some sprite to drink and then she had some spaghetti and a chocolate shake and now she wants some mash potatoes with gravy and bread sticks with sauce and a Dr. Pepper. I am not sure that she has forgiven Heidi or me for letting them to this to her. The hardest part of this whole thing is to see her leave into the surgery room with tears rolling down both cheeks and then seeing that face when she wakes up and that look!!! As many of you know she won't take pills of any kind and when she doesn't want to take the liquid medicine, well, WWF wrestling takes place and she usually wins. I am trying to squirt Loritab via syringe between her breaths with it going all over her and the bed. If she does good tonight, they will remove her drain from her ear tomorrow and she can go to Kelli's She has a follow-up visit on Monday and then wait six months to twelve months to have them go back into the ear to see that everything is good so we will get to do this one more time.

Kelli and Pete's electric service on the one side of the their house went out last night and Marilee's oxygen concentrator when buzzing loudly. They couldn't find a problem with any of the breakers and this morning they found an outlet that had burned out. It would appear with the concentrator and the space heater in the basement as well as a large light panel to heat up the mud in the basement, it over heated.

Thanks to all for all of your thoughts, emails, calls, etc. We hope that tomorrow we will have Jenna up running around.