Good News!

We finally got some good news on my scans! My spleen is back to normal size, my liver is going back to normal, the place in my chest wall is dead and there are no new places showing up! The power of prayer shows again! Thank you Lord! So thank all of you that have been praying, keep up the good work! We will continue with treatment just like we've been doing. It won't seem like such a task now, knowing that it's working.
Also the Komen race is this weekend and I'm looking forward to that! If you had planned on signing up to walk and didn't make it before they stopped online registration, you can still sign up. There are two ways, you can go to Dick's Sporting Goods in Kingsport on Saturday between 3-7, or you can register at the race on Sunday. Be sure to let them know you want to sign up for my team "Kristi's Krusade"!
Again, thanks for all the prayers, but keep em coming, I'm not out of the woods just yet!

Komen race info...

Ok everybody, my former teacher, Cathy Combs, has been so great as to volunteer to be my team captain this year and get things together. Here is the link to the team page Kristi's Krusades so you can make a donation in my honor, or even better, you can join the team and walk! All the information you will need to donate or register will be there on the site. Please donate so they can get closer to a cure, you really don't know what this means to me.

a much asked for update...

So sorry that it's been so long, I didn't realize that it had been almost 2 months. The past two months have held a lot, good and bad. I got my first dose of my new chemo, ixempra, which is an infusion that I will get every 3 wks. Also, the same day I started that, I started another chemo, a pill called xeloda, and I take it twice a day for two weeks, take a break for two weeks, then start it again. So far it hasn't lined up where I take the two together since the first dose, and it is a good thing! It really got me down and out, not to mention everything else that was going on within the same week. I got that treatment on a Tuesday, didn't start feeling bad til Thursday, missed two days of school that week, Doug's dad passed away Monday morning, I had graduation Tuesday, then all the funeral stuff. I was exhausted! Felt horrible that I wasn't able to be much support for Doug, wasn't able to go with him and the family to make arrangements, and wasn't able to go to the burial. The chemo was just too much for me that time and timing was terrible. Did you notice I added graduation in the mix? Yep, I finally graduated, and I am so proud of myself. Haven't been able to go to work yet, my white blood count stays low most of the time and I can't be around a lot of people, a downfall of ixempra. Also since the last time I posted, we found out we are getting to moved! Doug will be taking over his aunt and grandmother's house (grandmother passed away almost 4yrs ago, and his aunt passed away just over a year ago.) But the house has so much stuff in it, it will take a while to get it cleaned out, not to mention the few little upgrades we would like to have done. There was a water leak in one of the bathrooms a while back and the floor had to be replaced, that's his current project. So we have have been really busy with that. So that's the past two months in a nutshell. I know that a lot of people have been asking family and friends, asking me through email and facebook, and it makes me feel great that so many people care, so I apologize for letting it go so long without updating. All I can say is that I will try not to let it happen again.