Don: This seems like we are climbing a mountain. A mountain that disappears into the clouds as you look up. It makes it very hard to judge how far you have to go to reach the top. People try to explain to you how tall it is. You know that there really is a top up there somewhere but you have a rough time getting it into perspective. You don’t know how far you will climb each day either. So now you don’t know how far you must go and you don’t know the speed you are going. Each day you keep going and sometimes you see an obstacle or barrier that you must get over. When you do get passed it, you feel a little sense of accomplishment but then you realize that you still don’t know where you really are in your journey. You just know that you must keep going.

We completed Karen’s 36 hours of chemo yesterday (Thursday) at about 2:00. All of her counts are coming down. There is a number that they give us each day based on a math formula of some of those individual counts. Today it is 360. Anything below 500 means she can’t eat anything that is not cooked or processed. This is exactly like how her very first month and treatment started out last year on Oct 14, 2009. You can read from the beginning by going to https://karensday.com/?paged=17. That is pretty close to the beginning of our stay in Gainesville. You can back up to older messages than that if you like. I direct you there because we really are starting over now and we explained the process in more depth back then. For now we just want to end this note with a request for continued prayers.