We made the trek to Huntsman this morning to meet with the doctors. As you may know, Marilee has not been able to get her last two scheduled chemo treatments due to her platelets and other things, so we have been anxious to get the meeting over with so we would know what is going on. The good news was her platelets were up today and through some pressure from Dr. Ward's staff, they are going to get her in for a chemo treatment at 1PM today. The gave us some charts that show there is some progress from the previous treatments. They will give her a lower dosage of the chemo hoping that it will not take her down so far and hard so they can stay on a treatment schedule. We know that there will be a need for on going treatments after the sixth scheduled treatment and that they will plan on doing another scan sometime in the next month. Dr. Ward was to the point, frank, and answered all of our questions and concerns so we have made it today, will get the treatment this afternoon and go to tomorrow. One day at a time. Marilee has really made marvelous progress considering Dr. Ward's statement today of how really sick she was when she arrived in October. I know I was not aware of the seriousness state that she was when we got her up here. He seemed very pleased with the treatments and progress.
Thanks to each of you for your telephone calls, emails, cards, prayers and thoughts. We certainly feel that this has been a very big part of the success of her treatments and care.
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