Quick update

Hello all,

I am writing to you on a soggy Sunday afternoon.  Calgary has had a whole lot of rain, which our flowers appreciate, but we do not.  Will is more than 2 weeks past his surgery and had his stitches removed the other day.  His head is healing nicely he is tolerating the IV antibiotics well enough, although it is a bit of a pain to always tote around the pump, tubing and bag of meds.  He thinks he'll be done with them by mid-July. 

Alexis is almost done school...two and a half days left!  We'll celebrate by going out to a movie that afternoon, then she has over a week of chilling out before heading to Pine Lake Christian Camp for a week with her friends. 

As promised, I have been thinking and praying about which treatment to pursue next.  My recent bone scan and bloodwork results dealt another blow to my optimism...they both show likely worsening of the cancer.  This time, I actually feel it.  Between fatigue, back pain and hair loss, it is hard to stay positive.  I think I have decided on a course of action though.  I will likely accept Decadron (a strong steroid to reduce inflammation), an anti-iron medication (I was recently found to have toxically high levels as a result of inflammation), DCA (a "new" cancer drug that is not a chemotherapy, based out of a clinic in Toronto), and I will go back onto a strict diet since I have been less diligent lately.  Now I just have to see if those all fit together when I see my oncologist this week.  Once I start, I can explain more details about each part.

May the Lord bless and keep you this summer,
Shawna