Back to Texas we go...

Well, it looks like Carrie will be participating in the new clinical trial at MD Anderson sometime in the next coming weeks. After looking into the trial at Vanderbilt, she doesn't qualify to participate because she has had too many prior treatment protocols. So we've decided to give this new trial at MDA a shot. She has to contact the trial coordinator and figure out scheduling and all the other details, which we hope to have figured out by middle of next week. If everything goes as we're suspecting, she will start around the 2nd week of May. It will be very similar to the trial she just came off of, with once weekly infusions. She'll meet with her doctor every 3 weeks and get scanned every 6 weeks to see what kind of progress she is making.

She has been home since last Thursday and has really enjoyed spending that time here in Auburn without having to travel. The pain she was having last week seems to have subsided. She's still experiencing some mild to moderate stomach discomfort, but the medicine they gave her last week seems to help somewhat. The doctors said from the scans it appears a tumor is pressing up against something, causing the discomfort, but hopefully it won't get any worse. We are still monitoring her blood pressure - it's come down a little bit, but it's still running high so they'll keep her on the medicine for now. Other than that, she's feeling a little more tired and run down than usual, but she's still being as active as possible. We're trying to keep our spirits up and pray that this new trial brings miraculous results!

We will of course keep everyone up to date once we get more details regarding the trial. And as always, thank you all for your continuous thoughts and prayers.