Prostate cancer update #3

I have completed chemotherapy treatment #3 and am about to begin #4 which will hopefully be the last one for a while. I will continue to go to the Cancer Center on a regular basis for blood tests and the Zometa treatments for my bones. The good news is that my PSA has come down from a high of 45 to 17 and it is still droping. My doctor says he may give me a break from the chemo after treatment #4 which starts in a few days. I went throught some very hard days during this treatment and just as I am feeling a little better it’s time to start another one. I think this one may be the most difficult but knowing it may be the last will give me a lot of encouragement.

Your prayers have strengthened me and lifted me up during all of this and I thank you and ask you to please continue. There is a lot of flu here in Beaufort so while I am completing the chemo treatments and my blood count is low, I plan to stay at home as much as possible. That means I will not be at church on Sunday which is very hard for me to do.

We don’t have cable out here in the woods and get our TV from a dish so I can’t get sermons from our church (CBC). Instead I am recording Dr. Stanley and Dr. Jeremiah so Peggy and I can have our own devotion and worship on Sunday mornings.

May God bless and watch over you.      John