I just realized that I haven't up-dated this for about a week. I just finished working seven straight closes (about 80 hours) and today was my day off. :} Since the last up-date, Cathy has had her Herceptin treatment (Thurs) and a vitamin C infusion (Fri). We 'skipped' the vitamin C treatment on Monday this week, as Cathy spent most of the day in bed sleeping. We received the blood test results from last week which are as follows:
Albumin 2.1 (protein)---low
Alkaline phosphates 473 (down from 592)---still very high
Bilirubin 1.39 (down from 1.58) --still too high
AST 122 (up 8)--high
ALT 126 (down 5)--high
and the biggest indicator: Tumor marker 506 (up from 489 last time)--going the wrong way.

Needless to say, I was not encouraged with these results. We have 15 vitamin C treatments completed and I had really hoped to see more improvement in these numbers---especially the tumor markers. We will continue the week with the vitamin C while prayerfully considering other options.

 "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen"(Heb.11:1).

Mike