Recovery from cycle 6

Well Coop has been pretty unhappy the last 2 days which is a good clue that his counts are dropping and he might need some blood or platelets.  He had a blood draw late this afternoon so we should know by tomorrow morning.  We still haven't heard about the results of his bone scan from last week, hopefully the doctor will call soon.  Here is a picture of Coop and myself after his blood draw today, it wiped him out and he slept for 2 hours.

The other kids are handling things pretty good.   They have had a nice summer so far.  Isaac and Dalton went to basketball camp at ISU and had a blast.  Korbie went to a soccer camp and had fun as well.  They love to swim and hopefully before the summer ends we can get them into swimming lessons and take them to lava.   Jared is playing a little softball with the guys and looking forward to hunting this fall.  Before Coop was diagnosed I signed up for 3 marathons.  I already ran Ogden and it was so fun, a really great day.  Morgan Valley is next on July 30th.  Pocatello is the first weekend in September.  Running is a good stress reliever and I love it!!!

Jared and I were able to meet many cancer patients this last trip Primary Childrens and everyone's stories tug at our heart strings.  It is so hard to see people go through these things, especially kids.  But I know we are also given strength with our trials so that we can rise above them and become stronger and more Christ-like.  We wish all of these families the best!!!  One little guy that people instantly love is Connor, he has Downs syndrome and A-L-L.  His visits to Primarys for chemo are 28 days at a time, way too long!