Monday, March 30 10:45 am

We visited with the Dr. and things are going well. His CEA count when he got here in Jan was 130, last time were 60 and today were 35.7 which is good news, tumors are shrinking. As long as these numbers are coming down, he doesn't feel the need to do scans until a little farther down the road. We had a frank meeting with him today in which the Dr. told us that he was dying when he got here in January. With this new treatment plan, his intents are to give him some more "years" and he believes that he can, it's just a matter of picking the correct route to take because he has had all the drugs at Baylor that you would typically use for colon cancer and his tumors continued to multiply everytime we had more scans ran at Baylor. He says for now, he is going to keep him on the Erbitux since his CEA numbers are dramatically decreasing. The side effect of the chemo is that it causes his face to break out all over in a rash. Dr. is funny in that he said "I don't care what your face looks like, I want to kill those tumors"! His next chemo is April 13th. Thanks for all your prayers. God is good and we feel like we have a second chance at a few more years here. We were only married 3 months when we were diagnosed with this disease so I have had a hard time dealing with that but with God's strength, I am getting better too. Thanks again. Tommie

March 29th 3PM

We are here. The roads were in good shape but snow still on the ground in Tulsa. The lady that checked us into our guest room said they had blizzard conditions yesterday but today it is sunny but snow still everywhere except the highways. Thank God! Buel had already had his lab work so we are done for the day. Thanks.

Sunday, March 29th

Well Tulsa received 6 inches of snow on Saturday, the 28th, so we are hoping that Sunday it will melt. We will be leaving around noon on Sunday and he has blood work when we get there. His Dr. appt. is Monday, the 30th, at 8:00 am and then chemo at 10:00 am. The chemo and all meds will take approximately 4 hours so we will be headed home as soon as we are finished. Thanks for all the prayers and God Bless You.

Monday March 16th Chemo

Buel received his chemo treatment today. All went well. The Dr. said that he is shooting for 12 total treatments (this is his 3rd) and then they will probably do scans to see what the chemo has done to the tumors. He also said that he could be on this treatment "long term" if it is shrinking the tumors. This chemo causes Buel to break out in a rash on his face (acne) and they gave him some prescriptions to help with that. His next treatment is March 30th. Thanks for all the prayers!