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Hi all, I thought I'd send out an update on how Dad is doing and give Mom a little break...

I talked to them on the phone and Dad is feeling pretty cruddy. His stomach hurts and he has diarrhea again, plus he's nauseated and just feeling all around yucky I think. (Cruddy and yucky are very technical medical terms.) It's not anything unexpected, but it isn't great since Dad is off his food again. Mom said some fancy word to me with mucus in it, which I know means that the mucus membranes in his body are probably irritated and inflamed. He is taking a lot of drugs and just had radiation, so it's not a big surprise that he is feeling so poorly, just a big disappointment.

His counts bottomed out on Saturday (no, I couldn't say for sure what they are counting, but I think it's white blood cells), and came up a little, which means (without all the fancy technical words that my mom can remember but I can't) that his immune system was almost totally gone but is hopefully on the rise again. That could help him feel better, since his body can't heal his membranes, including the ones in his stomach and intestines, without an immune system.

Please pray that he will feel better soon. I know it is hard on my mom when he isn't feeling well, and when he isn't eating. I also know that it is hard not to feel hopeless when your body is feeling miserable so please pray for my dad's (and mom's) spirits. Pray that they will feel God's love and healing presence very close to them over the next while.

I hope I got that all right, if I didn't, that's okay, you can still pray and I'm sure God will figure out what we're talking about.