Well, I said last week that I was going to try to keep up with this blog, and I've already let almost a week go by since I last posted.  There are reasons for that, or maybe excuses, but before we get to those let me tell you right now before you read any further, if you have not read Whitney Hardee Cox's blog yet, go there RIGHT NOW!  She has such a testimony and awesome faith to share that you will be SO BLESSED!  That girl and her family is AWESOME and there is NO doubt that God is working in her life. The URL is http://whitneycox.thislittlelightofmine.net/. Our family BELIEVES that God is healing her NOW!

     Now back to our journey with cancer, and I say "our" because Thomas and I could not make it through without a host of friends and family that support us in more wonderfully awesome ways than you could even imagine.  Since March is Multiple Myeloma Awareness month, I wanted to tell you a little about MM. Now this is what I "think" I have learned over the last 5+ years, but don't quote me!  I definitely don't have a medical mind. 

Multiple myeloma is a blood cancer that forms in a type of white blood cell called a plasma cell. Plasma cells help you fight infections by making antibodies that recognize and attack germs.

Multiple myeloma causes cancer cells to accumulate in the bone marrow, where they crowd out healthy blood cells. Rather than produce helpful antibodies, the cancer cells produce abnormal proteins that can cause sometimes serious problems.

What triggers plasma cells to become malignant in multiple myeloma is not known. The cancerous myeloma plasma cells proliferate and crowd out normal plasma cells and can etch away areas of bones. These lesions may cause pain and even breaks or fractures of the bones so damaged. The proteins produced in large amounts can cause many of the symptoms of the disease by making the blood more thickened and depositing the proteins in organs that can interfere with the functions of the kidneys, nerves, and immune system.

You know what?  This has SO taxed my brain!  I am SO glad God called me to be a teacher and not a doctor!  I am going to try to be short on my prayer request for tonight.  Thomas is STILL running fever, so we are going in the morning to see our FAVORITE oncologist, and I mean that from the bottom of our hearts.  She is going to place a peripheral IV line so that I (yes, I said me!) can give him IV antibiotics 3 times a day for the next 14 days!  Hey, you all know I will do anything for Thomas and this is keeping him from a 14 day stay in the hospital.'  Hopefully, this will take care of whatever is causing these fevers that he hasn't been able to shake since December, and we can get back to his regular treatment plan.  Thank you for all of the prayers for Dr. Adams and all of the others who treat him, as well as all of us.  And please continue to pray for Caroline Keene, Dr. Adams' daughter who is battling cancer too, as well as Whitney and MANY others!