First of all, THANK YOU all for all your encouraging words and prayers and quotes. I have printed them out to give to David to read. (if he can focus..just gave him meds.)

I had David discharged from the hospital on Tuesday at 10:00 am and had him at the Oncology Clinic closer to home by 11:15. They were administering Chemo to him by noon. ( Taxotere and Carboplatin) He tolerated it very well and I had him back home in his flannel comfy sheets by 4:00. I think he slept solid for the first time in weeks. The pain seems to be under control. Yeah!! We had him on too strong meds at the hospital and that made him too loopy. But the docs were trying to find a good balance. I have him on 5cc of Methodone every 8 hours with one 75mg Fentanyl patch for pain and lots of anti nausea medicine for the chemo.

The PEG tube is great. To anyone that is concerned about getting a PEG inserted, please do not worry. It is very easy to use and the discomfort of it goes away after about 24 hours. Even David was surprised. He said that he finds it easier to deal with than the nose tube. (although it is less invasive.)

So dear ones, we are at the moment, quite "well". Tomorrow will come and it may be different, but in the here and now...we are fine.

Chemo will administered once every 3 weeks for 8 sessions with a scan halfway in between to see if the tumor is shrinking. I would like to hope that we would visually be able to notice something before then.

Thanks again.

Brenda