plan and friends

the plan for this week is to continue physical therapy twice this week, and a visit to the chemo tuesday morning (1 hour treatment).

physical therapy will continue 2 or 3 time a week until further notice and she will have a 3rd treatment in 2 weeks. after the 3rd treatment she will have an MRI to determine if the Avastin is working. if it is she will continue treatments every 2 weeks for 30 minutes. i am sure they said she would have an MRI after every 3rd treatment from that point on to make sure it is continuing to work.

let me just say that what i think is a good sign so far is the lack of seizures. in the past when the tumor was growing the seizures were happening on a fairly consistent basis. this is only my opinion and continues to be my prayer.

many people have asked about visiting and thanksgiving. let me just say that even though we really love seeing everyone the toll that the visit take on karen and her mom seems to be very high. it might be better if you live more than 8 hours away to wait and see how the next two treatments go before visiting. the timing might be better.

also, even though karen's parents will be here for thanksgiving, we are not planning to cook or have a big thing. in fact it should be very low key with very little happening. karen would like it to be very slow and calm here that week. Karen's parents may try to go back to arkansas after that week too.

so what i might need is some who can come and stay for the weeks after thanksgiving until the Christmas break. i am hoping that my aunt and uncle Newby's can come for that 3 or 4 week time while i am working. during that time i will evaluate if karen will be able to be alone during the day after the Christmas break or if we need some assistance.

after Christmas possibilities: it may be that karen's parents might need to come back and be with us. this to me is a low possibility seeing how good karen is doing. what we are thinking is that we may need someone or a group of people who can stop by during the day to check on karen. i will use the weeks after thanksgiving to evaluate and if needed set up some kind of list of people to help. i may need to look into hiring someone if we cannot find volunteers for this. we will do what we can to help out karen's parents. they need to be able to go home after thanksgiving.