D Day

Today's the day that Harriet must have her blood test in preparation for the chemotherapy. I would appreciate if you would continue to pray that the white blood cell count is high enough that she will have her fifth chemotherapy on Monday morning.

This past week has been a pretty good week, overall. So we have a lot to be thankful for.

Today is The Lord's Day. I hope that you'll be sure to go to the house of the Lord and worship the creator of the universe. This is the season that we celebrate Christ's birth. I'm not going to argue the point that the probability of Jesus Christ being born on December 25 is slim. But something that we all should take in consideration is that everything we have emanates as a result of God's creation. God's gift to us is not just life itself, but he gave us his only begotten Son. He is a gift so that we could be reconciled with him. The Bible says that there is only one name under heaven by which men can be saved, the name of Jesus! He deserves all of our worship and praise.

 For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.  Romans 11:36

I hope you have a great day!

Maranatha,
Frank and Harriet

Dr. Chen

We met with Dr. Chen yesterday.  His concern for Harriet is her white blood cell count.  It was low last time, she only had two of these shots to stimulate the growth of white blood cells.  Because of the side effects were so bad, Harriet did not have the six injections that he requested.  So I'm asking for prayer that the replenishment of white blood cell is enough for her to have her fifth chemotherapy on Monday morning.

Harriet has the mandatory blood test 24 hours prior to her chemotherapy.  So, we have a lot riding on this.  Because they won't do the chemotherapy unless the white blood cell count is up to at least what it was last time.

That was probably the most important thing that was talked about during the meeting.  Everything else goes as before.

We appreciate your prayers.  I hope you have a great weekend and I'll keep you updated.

Maranatha,
Frank and Harriet

Almost a Good Day

As in the previous days it went pretty good until nighttime.  It sure would be nice to know it's going on.  Have you ever had that situation?  Anyway it overall is going better.  We just have to deal with the residual colitis issue.

Today we go see Dr. Chen, my second favorite Chinese guy.  My favorite Chinese friend is Yiping.  He goes surfing with us each morning.  There's about a half-dozen guys that go out at first light and he's one of them.  Very up guy, very nice.  Don't know how I got to that topic, but anyway tomorrow morning I will give you an update on what Dr. Chen told us.

Thank you so much for your love and prayers!

Maranatha,
Frank and Harriet

More of the Same

The good news is that Harriet continues to do well.  Yes there are small problems, but as I mentioned yesterday compared to a month ago she's doing really good.  She's able to sleep and is out of pain.

Tomorrow morning we have the appointment with Dr. Chen who is her oncologist.  So Saturday morning I will give you that update.  Until then, praise the Lord and thank you so much for your prayers and support!

Maranatha,
Frank and Harriet

Wet Wednesday

Well we finally got some rain.  I know for some people it's no big deal, but we are actually in a drought here in Southern California.  Yesterday went pretty well, afternoon/evening was not as good.  In a sense when these blog posts are very short, it's good news.  The longer blog posts usually, bad news.

It's a matter of fine-tuning all the medications and food that Harriet can eat.  Breakfast seems to go the best and then when later on in the day after a very light lunch and dinner then things seem to go south.  But in retrospect she's doing way better than she was doing a month ago and that's great!

Thanks again for your continued support and prayers.

Maranatha,
Frank and Harriet

Another Pretty Good Day

Well, we've had a few good days in a row.  That is encouraging.  Hopefully things will continue to get better.  I'm trying to fatten Harriet up a little bit before her next chemo.  It is difficult.  

This would give us all pause to thank God that we can eat what we want and not have any problems.  For most of us it's never a problem putting on weight.

I hope you have a great day and thank you again for your prayers and support.

Maranatha,
Frank and Harriet

One More Week till the Next Chemo

The weekend went pretty well for Harriet.  A week from today she has her fifth chemotherapy.  So, technically this week she should be doing pretty well.  Unfortunately the Colonist which was brought on by the lymphoma, causes a lot of problems.  So that will have to be dealt with after Harriet's final treatment which we hope is December 29.

Harriet misses so much during her self imposed isolation.  We have no idea what her white blood cell count is at this time, but she's kept isolated so that she doesn't catch anything.  Which means she's not been to church for more than a month or seen the grandkids.  This is tough.

I mentioned yesterday that I went and visited Daniel.  I thought I had attached a picture that we had taken.  But when I went back to look at the blog post I did not see a picture so I'm going to post it today.  If you want to read about that adventure look at yesterday's post please.

That's it for now I hope you have a fantastic week.  Thank you so much for your prayers and support.  John, Harriet's brother is in China and I hope they let him out so they can return to his family.  I'm sure he's there on business.  I just got a short note that he's there in China and he's praying for Harriet.

Maranatha,
Frank and Harriet