Happy New Year - Good Riddens 2008

I know, I am a little late on getting this update out there. There really has been very little news in the last week and a half...until yesterday. We went to the hospital yesterday for Cynthia's 3rd of 4 treatments in this round. As I noted in an earlier post, when we go in, Cynthia has the needle inserted into the port (the most traumatic part of the whole process because they can never find the correct insertion point), they then draw some blood for the lab tests, then we wait about an hour for the appointment with the doctor. The doctor reviewed the findings and, wouldn't you know, her white cell count was too low to administer the chemo...delayed yet again. As you can imagine, this is very frustrating for her but we are glad the doctor is taking the appropriate precautions. As a result, we are going back Thursday and we hope that the labs will be in the appropriate range that we can get this treatment completed. Cynthia is also considering getting a shot of white blood cell growth factor to help her recover so that we won't have any more delays. And so, the wheels on the bus go round and round (it seems like for ever).

Aside from this, we had a very nice Christmas and New Years. We had Merkt's Cheeseburgers on the grill for New Years. Cynthia was asleep by 10:00 and I stayed up until midnight, had a glass of champagne, and went to bed. Goodness, are we getting old.

We continue to look forward to our travels when ever this process is over...Vegas continues to call our name. We hope to be able to go around the end of May or early June.

Finally, we want to give our our most heartfelt well wishes and prayers to Lynn Steinle. Lynn was recently diagnosed with lung cancer and on January 5th, she went through a successful surgery at Frodetert to remove her right lung. She is breathing unassisted and is resting comfortably. Again, our prayers are with her.