WILL YOU JOIN US?

Once given a diagnosis of cancer, it is a very fast moving process from that point. On October 17, dad was transferred from the Salt Lake IMC hospital to LDS hospital. Once there, they jumped right into treatments, spinal taps, platelet transfusions, and finally chemotherapy. The process of chemo therapy is to break down the cancer cells, which in turn breaks down the body. So, I am sure you can imagine what it must feel like to have drugs pumped into your veins 12 hours a day which make you feel like crud.

Now all the while they are pumping you with a form of poison, they talk about all the courses of action recommended, marrow transplants, and donor matching- like you are supposed to be able to think through all of the choices given to you. That is why my dad is really lucky to be married to my mom (and for other reasons as well...). She has been an executive secretary for as long as I can remember, which gives her the ability to not only take notes, but to organize them as well.

A day or so ago they were reading through some of the many papers on chemotherapy given to them to find out that having a marrow transplant doesn't always guarantee remission, and in addition to this, the recommended course of treatment is 900 days! So for there are only a potential of 3-4 people matching dad, not a guarantee either. And the drugs they have to give for marrow transplant make your bones osseous an porous, which makes them brittle and prone to a hip fracture.

This is a huge worry to mom and dad, and as they have initially prayed about it, feel it might not be the right thing to get a transplant.

So, we are asking you to join us THIS SUNDAY FOR A FAST. We are all fasting, that the right choices can be made for dad, so that the Lord's will can be done. This is a hard thing to do, we realize, asking this of family and friends. It is a hard thing to put our will on the alter of the Lord and ask for His will to be done, especially when we all want something so badly.

Remember though,faith makes things possible, not easy. We thank you in advance for joining us in this cause and wish to express our gratitude as a family for all of your thoughts and prayers.