Update

Jay is out of ICU and in a regular room. He is still passing blood and his counts are dropping a little. They will reevaluate at 2pm and decide if they need to transfuse blood. Overall he is feeling good. Resting some...watching football! 

Update and CA 19-9

Jay is feeling really good this morning. They started him on a liquid diet. He did get a little sick after eating. But is resting and doing well. 

He blood counts are trending down so they gave him one unit of blood and will give him another unit at some point today. 

He is leaving ICU and going to a regular room. We will probably spend the weekend at the hospital and hopefully get the bleeding under control. 

GREAT NEWS! His CA 19-9 has dropped to 14... The lowest it has ever been. 

Thank you all for the prayers. 

December 2013 CA 19-9 = 202,000

January 2014 CA 19-9 =109,000

February 2014 CA 19-9 = 25,000

March 2014 CA 19-9 = 18,000

April 2014 CA 19-9 = 13,000

May 2014 CA 19-9= 5,500

June 2014 CA 19-9=1,964

August 2014 CA 19-9 = 481

September 2014 CA 19-9 = 211

October 2014 CA 19-9 = 111

November 2014 CA19-9 = 57

December 2014 CA 19-9 = 40

January 2015 CA19-9 = 26

February 2015 CA 19-9 = 21.7

February 2015 CA 19-9 = 20.6

March 2015 CA 19-9 = 21.2

April 2015 CA 19-9 = 19.7

May 2015 CA 19-9 = 23

May 2015 CA 19-9 = 26

May 2015 CA 19-9 = 35

June = started new chemo drugs

July 2015 CA19-9 = 17

August 2015 CA 19-9 = 28

September 2015 CA19-9 = 14

Recovering Well

Jay is doing great. Hopefully they got the bleed. He rested on and off last night. His  blood counts came up drastically after the surgery and seem to be stable. He is in ICU and will hopefully be moved to a regular room for additional monitoring. 

Thank you all for the prayers! Keep them coming. 

Update: A set back...prayers needed.

Since starting the new treatment in July  Jay has been anemic. He has been hospitalized a few times and received numerous units of blood. Today He passed out at the cancer center. He then began to throw up blood. It became very apparent that his stomach bleed has returned. He is having a procedure to hopefully stop the bleed. It will be several hours before the procedure is done. 

Please keep Jay and our family in your prayers. 

7th Round of chemo

Another Round of chemo today. I'm low on iron so I get a bag of that as well. It took a bone marrow biopsy to figure it out.

Getting blood today

I'm getting 2 units of blood today. Low red blood count. Hope to be home by midnight. 

Latest CA19-9

CA19-9 = 28  still in the normal range below 35. More chemo tommorow.