Nov 23

Hope you all had a happy thanksgiving. This has been quite an unusual year for our family, so many ups and downs it is hard to keep track. In the end we still find much to be thankful. The Colts won the super bowl, then Lance (Sasha's Brother) was in an explosion at his old house receiving 3rd degree burns to the face and hands, and a lengthy stay in the burn unit, then we went to Disney Land (hard to believe the tumor was growing inside her then), then the Basement Floods, then we get a new and improved basement, then Mikayla's diagnosis Oct 19.

Certainly Mikayla's diagnosis was a big blow to us. But she is pushing through with the chemo, trying to go to school as much as her body lets her, she is trying another wean of the steroids, and her overall prognosis after 70 weeks of chemo seems good. Things could be much worse, so we will be thankful that we have her with us, and Jacob and Grace too! The steroids make her affect very flat. We try to keep her busy and interacting, other she sits and stares. She wakes up (mom and dad with her) multiple times a night. She has made it through 3 weeks of chemo with few side effects. She has an MRI scheduled on Dec 7 at Riley. We are praying there is no increase in tumor size. We don't expect it to have shrunk.
That is all for now, we will keep all of you in our prayers as you have done for us. We continue to pray for Ethan Teeple (I mentioned him in a previous blog) as his condition has significantly declined, his family continues to remain strong and pray God will ease his pain as he opens his arms to Ethan.
Chris