Good morning! I hope you’re all staying warm. We have had several good snow days – Conor has LOVED playing in the snow/ice. He’s been sledding and playing until his cheeks are bright red.

Preston is getting his chemo right now, and reports that his labs are all “really solid.” This is such a wonderful thing to hear. He’s been rocking the protein, taking his multi-vitamins religiously, and working really hard to follow instructions. And it seems to be helping. He also got a little lecture for gaining weight – which really, is OK by me! I’m so glad he’s not losing any more weight.

The big number that I want to report is his CEA – it’s the one indicator that sounded the alarm when all of this began. It was at a 4 and is now down to 1.9! Seems insignificant, but mentally, it isn’t since it is one of the few things they can look at to say that the Chemo is doing its job. We still won’t know for sure until after the scans at the end of this month, but this is a much-needed piece of good news. It makes the awfulness of the drugs feel worth it. It’s really hard for P to be feeling back to his old self and then go get medicine that makes him feel like crap for 5 days…

Just had to share!