Hello Everyone!

We have good news. Actually, to be precise our Nuero-oncologist said that the MRI results are "REALLY Good."

When the doctor reviewed the scan of Karen's brain he said that the radiation had done such a good job that he couldn't see any tumor in the scan. That is not to say that the cancer is totally gone, but the fact that he couldn't locate any is certainly something to thank God for!

In addition, most of the tumor that was in her spine has either reduced so that it is also unable to be seen or there is only residual left where there were pronounced nodules previously. There is only one nodule of any significance left and we are hoping that this will continue to reduce over the next few months.

Needless to say we are very happy and thankful. We are thankful to the doctors who have done such an excellent job, to all of you who have so consistently endured along with us, and to our God who has chosen to answer our petitions by continuing to heal and strengthen Karen. She continues to remain in his fatherly care, and he can use her as he sees fit, but at this moment we are all smiles.

In three months we'll go back in for another MRI to see how things are looking then. If the progress continues to be good then we'll probably only need to do MRIs every 6 months. This is a lot better than the 8 week interval we originally expected for the first year.

More good news is that the Doctor gave Karen the OK to start tapering off of her anti-seizure meds which means at the end of next week she won't be taking any medicine.

It also looks like we only have a few more tests to run as baselines to refer back to in the future and Karen hopefully won't even need to have blood drawn for a long time after that.

There's some other little stuff, but suffice it to say we are thrilled and thankful for Karen's current prognosis. Thank you all again for your faithful love and friendship!