Dear Ones,
First of all, thank you for your tremendous kindness and love demonstrated by your faithfulness in continuing to pray for my dear Del. Tomorrow is her 2nd chemo treatment of this new cycle of a reduced amount of chemo, given weekly instead of every three weeks. She is doing fair as she heads into this next chemo, but a little nervous if this next treatment will worsen her symptoms.
There is one prayer request in particular that we would ask you to pray for, and that is her appetite. Because the chemo probably affects her taste buds etc, even the smell of food is hard for her to handle. The net result is that she ends up eating very small amounts, which has negative effects in all sorts of ways, not the least of which is that she has lost 44 pounds since she was first diagnosed. Please join our family in prayer that our dear Father would give Del more of a desire to eat. Thank goodness ice cream is still appealing to her. Today we started including a “protein powder” with her drinks.
One other matter has just raised its ugly head, and that is that Del has an intense pain on the bottom of her left foot. It could be part of the neuropathy that has left her hands constantly feeling cold and numb, and the souls of her feet the same. This pain is deeper than just the surface of the foot.
We will let you know how tomorrow goes. Again, thank you so much for standing with us.
Warmly,
Bryan, for Del too
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