Monday, October 11, 2010

Good evening.

It has been a long weekend. I was unable to update because the hotel we stayed in had no free internet. I suppose I could have updated via my iPhone......but I am not that good at it that way.

Anyway, the scans are over, yay. We don't have any official results yet, Connie said maybe as early as tomorrow. They did have to do some extra bone scans of David's right side, something was showing between a couple of ribs. Please pray it is nothing. It could be an active lung met, and it could just be 'shine through' from the end of the front of his ribs (to the back). The preliminary report on the CT scan is that everything is stable; so that is very good news! We are hanging on to the suspicious spot being just shine through. He had shine through last scan, but from his collar bone! Any of you who have been with us through this whole journey know that I have called David our 'curve-ball thrower' for the past 3 years~~it appears he continues to be. He can't just do anything the easy way, he has to throw the curve balls that freak us out; and keep us trusting God!!

It was a rough weekend for him. None of us got much sleep. He even slept on the way home today, and he does everything in his power NOT to sleep in the car. He hates to take 'naps' because he says he is missing part of his day. We try to tell him if he sleeps in the car then when he wakes up we will be closer to home. But he is a goofball and won't sleep. So the fact that he slept on the way home says a lot about just how tired he is!! He slept on the way home when he was receiving chemo (when he wasn't vomiting), but that was different. He was so drugged up then that he couldn't stay awake!! And that is also partly why he won't nap now. Anyway, it was a rough weekend, and we are all glad it is over.

David also had to have an echo, so we will find out the results of that, too. He has to have one every year, as heart damage from the chemo can show up years later. I will post when I hear any results.

Connie said he looks good, and she doesn't need to see him for 4 months! His scans are now on the every four month schedule! We have graduated from the every 3 months! They will continue to do lab work when they do scans. Poor kid still has to keep getting poked!! But now it is only 3 times a year instead of 4!! YAY! So that is good news. We are nervous with the every 4 months, but we just have to trust that they know what they are doing.

Sorry we missed you, Autumn. We really wanted to see you before you moved! Have a safe trip, and I know we will keep in touch. You mean a lot to us!

That is all the news for now. Have a good evening, and I will post when I know anything definite. God bless you all. We love you.

Kristi and the Koury Klan

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