Don: Night number two went much smoother than the first night. No high fever and the blood pressure stayed acceptable. Blood work results indicate that the bad cells are already going down. We won’t really know any exact numbers until the bone marrow biopsy on 11-15-2010. We are taking things one day at a time while keeping our eye on that biopsy. Results will probably take two days after that.

Thank you God for the easier night that Karen has last night. We pray for even more peace for her as we continue down this path. Amen

Don: Karen has just been hooked up to her first bag of chemo. We have 3 days of chemo. In fact we will have 4 different chemotherapy drugs this round. We used 2 drugs during the first induction a year ago and they were given over 7 days. So things are different this time. There is also less chance of things working the way we want so lets continue to pray and let God know exactly what we want. “Dear God, please bring Karen through this relapse of Leukemia. We love her and need her in our lives for many more years to come. Remove the cancer cells and keep control of the fungus in the lungs until her bloodwork counts return to normal so that it can then be cured also. That will only be the first steps of the needed treatments. You know that we will be praying everyday for the needs we have now and then we will have new needs and new prayers soon. There are many of the steps that will be challenging to the doctors and Karen’s body. We will only make it through this with your healing hand and ask that you take care of her. Amen”