Thursday,

Just a quick update for the night. Besides my (Steve) fourth day of radiation, the only other event of note today was Bonnie's third bone marrow biopsy. She is now one up on me. It went very well and we should have the results on Monday, along with the results of the colonoscopy biopsy. Please pray that the bone marrow is clear of blasts and that she is in remission. Also pray that the biopsy of her colon turns out to be a type of colitis that will heal in time as opposed to a new ongoing thing she will have to deal with on top of the leukemia.

Most likely Bonnie will have her permanent port implanted next Tuesday, so I will get mine before hers. The doctors need to see the results of the biopsies before putting her port in.

Please pray that Bonnie will start to eat and get up and walk now that all the testing is done. She needs to get off the food IV bag and the doctors are ready to see her plan to go home soon. I would suspect sometime next week after the port is implanted.

I (Steve) am dealing with nightly fevers and sweats as part of the lymphoma. Please pray that I can get rest. Even though I'm now spending the night at home now, I'm still not sleeping that well due to the side effects of the radiation as well as the lymphoma symptoms.

It's getting a little more challenging to keep up to date on the nightly blog post due to my condition. I continue to ask God for strength to be able to share with all of you the status of our physical, emotional and spiritual health. Because there really isn't much going on between now and the port I will have implanted Monday due to it being a holiday weekend, Bonnie and I are more or less just hanging out at the hospital.

I've decided that because everyone else has a holiday weekend, we are going to take off the daily updating for a couple of days. If something happens that we want to update you on, we will, otherwise we will post Sunday night.

Thanks again for all your prayers.