Monday, November 10

Hello,

  Last week was busy but good. Michele felt good through the week, but her energy began to fade over the weekend. To be fair, the Prednisone that she takes for 5 days after an RCHOP treatment artificially boosts all her "systems", so that was probably the biggest factor for her feeling good. Over the weekend she had a hard time feeling warm, even though we have the house temperature turned up and she is dressed warmly. Today, she felt light headed, so we took her temperature and sure enough, she is running a slight fever. The oncologist has been consulted and feels that she has some viral infection that will run it's course. We gave her Tylenol around 3 o'clock and she broke into a sweat around 5 PM, so I think she is over the hump. She still feels light headed when she stands up, but I'm hoping that is gone tomorrow.

  The last treatment really took a toll on the progress of her left arm. This is somewhat expected, but still discouraging for her. Just to refresh: The issue with the arm is that it never really had a chance to heal from the surgery before she started getting chemo. At the time, I asked the surgeon how chemo would effect her recovery, and he basically said that we needed to pick our battles, and the most important thing was to get rid of the cancer first. So progress with the arm is like a yo-yo. We just need to keep reminding ourselves that the arm will come back when the cancer is gone. Needless to say, pray for patience.

Thanks for traveling this road with us.

Tim and Michele