Week 4

   We have made it through the first regiment of chemo! This week started off well. My mom flew into town Sunday to be here with us this week. Sunday night, our home teacher and the Elders Quorm president came over to give Eric a blessing before starting this next long week of chemo. We have to go in every day again this week. Yesterday went really well. We received the results from Eric's MRI, and everything came back normal. This was great news! When the doctor came in to find Eric to give him some information he did not recognize him with all of his hair gone. Eric was pretty tired after coming home, but he was able to rest for a couple hours and woke up feeling good.
   Today went smoothly, we learned that his tumor markers are now down to 157! That's right they are no longer in the thousands!! Yeah! This was awesome to hear! Eric has felt really good tonight, we were quite suprised thinking that he would be a lot more worn out this week, but so far he is really handling it well. The bishop came by to visit and was suprised himself that he was doing so well, he thought he would have found him really frail and sick. Eric is truly being blessed with his strength. We continue to pray that he will be strengthened. One of our friends brought in dinner tonight for us which was nice getting home after a long day at the doctors and not having to worry about it. It is so nice having the love and support of so many. What great friends and family we have.
   I wanted to share a couple of pictures that we have taken over the last few weeks!

Eric and I went on a date the Saturday before he started Chemo, this was taken that night! Two little love birds!

Eric and Kaizen this last weekend! Daddy sporting his new hair do! I've learned that with or without hair my hubby is still the hottest man I've ever laid eyes on!

  Eric is strong, he has handled all of this with the best attitude I think possible. He keeps smiling, and has a positive attitude. The hard moments still come where worry and doubt set it, but over the last few weeks it has been easier to keep those thoughts away and focus on the idea that we will overcome this. What a great day it will be when we are looking back on these days. But for now we will keep our heads held high, and thank our Father in Heaven for the blessings that he sends each day.