Day 85 (Course 2 Day 31)

Hello,

Well, today was interesting. Rita is doing well and getting stronger. She is so looking forward to her sisters and Lisa coming out for an overnight "girls night". Of coiurse, I will be sent home for the night. Rita's numbers were good today so we got to discontinue two pills and her and her nightly IV hook-up. She is really happy about that!! Rita had her central line discontinued today because it appeared to be a little dislodged. Thats OK because they will now put in a PICC line which will be in her arm and will be easier to maintain. They will do that Monday. All in all, we are in a good place right now. We did get some new info on course three. We had been under the impression that course three would last for 46 days. We found out toay that course three will be 70 days. That is a little disappointing because this seems like such a long process already. This information takes us well into June 2011 so it looks like we will be were a little longer. Whatever - as long as the outcome is positive. It always seems that we get a liitle bit of encouraging news which is immediately followed up by an additional challange. I guess that is just the nature of the beast. We remain determined to slay the beast and that is what we will do.

Hope this finds you all well. All of you are so supportive and we feel your prayers and love. Believe me, it is reflected back to you. When Rita is curred and we are back home, there will be one hell of a party.

OK enough - Love Dave.