August 18th

Today is the start of session #8. Todd and Seth left for the hospital this morning and will be there until tomorrow evening. We found out yesterday that some of the chemo has caused some high frequency hearing loss in Seth's left ear. The hearing that he did loss will never come back it is a permanent side effect. The chemo that Seth is getting tonight is the cause of the hearing loss. Pray there will not be any further damage. This past weekend we were camping with our youth group. Seth hiked up and down a step part of the mountain that was hard to do with normal function of your feet. He also jumped rope, I know that sound easy but prier to this weekend he was not able to jump off the ground. He is now able to jump about 2 inches off the ground. That is a good sign that the nerve damaged by Vanchristine (chemo) is starting to heal. He is also getting his appetite back, well at least he was before this chemo treatment. Another good thing is his platelet counts came up to 90,000 which means he is out of the danger zone. Please continue to pray that Seth has the strength for these last 2 rounds of chemo. Even though the end is so close it can fell so far away.