Rain, rain, go away!
It has been depressingly rainy the past few days and more to come, for those of you not in the area!

Chemo today went well. No problems with getting the IV in! The IV pump kept beeping and they had to take air out of the line a couple of times and adjust the lines a couple more.

Darrel has been doing very well! We even took off last Thursday and went to Long Beach (WA) for a couple of nights of razor clamming with the Wamsley’s. The weather was absolutely fabulous! Especially on Friday when it hit 67 degrees and I was digging clams in short sleeves!

We also went to the Commodore’s Ball at the yacht club on Saturday night after driving home that morning. It was a great time but no dancing for us. Darrel’s legs were paying the price for clamming so we left fairly early.

Darrel gets regular blood testing done. One of the tests that is an indicator of cancer was extremely high when he was in the hospital. They retested last week and we got the results a day or so ago. I wasn’t sure what they meant but the number was more than half the baseline test. I asked one of the nurses today if that meant the chemo was working to slow the progression and she said she thought it was. Then I did some research when I got home and that does seem to be a positive sign.

We will find out for sure when we see the doctor next week and then after the CT scan on the 19th. But, it is a hopeful indicator that this chemo regimen might be working for now to stop the spread of the cancer.

Your positively hopeful friend, Robin