So it’s been a few months since my last update.  We have news.  Last week Chris had an updated PET scan.  Tuesday this week was another surgery aimed at stopping the rampant radiation poisoning.  Or proctosis if you prefer.  January of 2023 saw the problem start and it has survived several lengthy therapies with only bare success.  So our doc feels that this last procedure Tuesday should be the ticket.  So Chris was sore but better now.  We go back in a month or so for a follow up.  

There have been a couple other issues too.  For now just know that we are working on those to get better there too.  

Today we got the PET results and the cancer seems clear.  That is great news.  For sure.  4th clear PET so much to be thankful for.  However Chris has some kind of cysts on a bone on the pelvis.  The docs have not seen it before and do not see it as a side effect or cancer but then they are not sure exactly what caused it.  We just know that it is painful to sit or stand.  More dang pestilence.  So we soldier on with hope and faith.  For those that have followed these posts over the months you can look back and see faith rewarded.  This has been a tough case with several ups and downs.  Seems that is always the case right?  But Chris is far down the road of recovery. 

We are focused on the fact that the scary cancer still seems gone and that is the best news of all.  As Chris said hey, I’m still here!   For film fans see the end of the original Papillion with Steve McQueen.  You’ll get it.  

And January 5th was the 34th anniversary of our first real date.  We went to a Mavericks game and had a nice dinner at Ferrari’s Italian Restaurant when it was in the West End near downtown.  It really was a great evening.  All these years later I still marvel at the fact that this evening and time together put us on a path we still walk.  And 34 years ago that night I woke up in some heavy pain.  Turns out at age 27 I had a kidney stone.  I decided right then that any girl that could make me hurt that bad was the one.  

Great story that continues on.  

So in closing please continue to keep us in your prayers and help keep the god we love on the case.  And please also keep my sister, Cyndy Krul, her husband Steve, daughter Sarah, grandson Henry (I call him the Hankster) and her husband Kyle on this prayer mission.  They are dealing with some really heavy problems and need God’s calming presence and grace big time.  And we have many other friends who need our prayers too.  Thank all of you so much for hanging in there with us and supporting us.  So much.  

Will update you in the coming days.  Be well!