Father-in-law Update...

For those of you who have been keeping up with my father-in-law and his battle with cancer. Here is the latest email that he sent out last week after his scans.

Dear Friends,

Pauletta and I met with the doctor this afternoon at MD Anderson to discuss the blood test and CT Scans I had yesterday.

The results were very encouraging. The doctor reported that I have reached a point in the treatment that the disease was no longer radiologically evident. I have reached a point of being NED. (No Evidence of Disease)

This means I have graduated from clinical trial school. This is a very good school from which to have received one's diploma. By the way my grades were a lot better in this school than they were in high school or college. I have undergone ten rounds of chemo therapy, almost a year's worth. That is four rounds more than anyone else in this clinical trial. My body has been able to take on an unusually high amount of these drugs and still bounce back. There have been some set backs along the way but, I am very happy to be where I am today.

The plan now is to discontinue chemo but continue to monitor my condition with scans every eight weeks.

Today I am very, very grateful to all of you for your support and prayers. The outpouring of support from the very beginning has been overwhelming. I feel like you have been with me since I started this journey last July. I want to thank all you for your support of Pauletta, my boys, and me.

Please don't take me off your prayer list as this type of cancer does have a fairly high incidence of recurrence, but for today the prayers can also be prayers of thankfulness.

Once again thank you all.

Kelly

Please still be in prayer for our family as we fight this battle together. I know that God can perform miracles through the power of prayer. Thank you in advance to all of you prayer warriors who are already praying for him. We really appreciate all of the prayers and please know that he feels them all.