Much To Celebrate

December 14th... a good day to celebrate.

Today Amy and I took Kirbi and McKenna to Steak 'n' Shake to have a small celebration of McKenna's 11th birthday. Grandma and Grandpa Parks joined us and we had a good time... and had some milkshakes... yum. McKenna got some cools presents. A star pillow from Grandma and a Ladybug necklace from Dad and Amy.

We celebrated something else good as well. Mom finished up her last day of radiation treatment today. What a trooper she was for 5+ weeks. She came through the treatments with flying colors. She must take a maintenance drug now for 5 years. Considering what the potential was for the cancer to be bad, we are truly blessed that it was caught early. Please continue to keep her in your thoughts and prayers.

Also, Ms. Kirbi got her Class Ring awhile back. She allowed me to take a picture of her flashing it to everyone.

Update on Mom

Just a note... Mom is over half way complete with the radiation treatments. Only 13 treatments of the 33 left as of today.

Overall she is doing very well. No major side effects at this point.

Please continue to keep her in your prayers.

Thanks,
CP

Update On Mom

Well they have mapped out the radiation treatment approach. It will begin on Monday, October 30 and continue 5 days a week for 7 weeks... except for Thanksgiving Day.

Please continue to keep her in your thoughts and prayers.

Thanks,
CP

Thank You For Your Thoughts and Prayers

A big thank you goes out to everyone who has kept my mom in your prayers. She was diagnosed with breast cancer a month or so ago and the future was uncertain. Since then, she has had some surgery and the results of that came back as good as we could have possibly imagined.
She just finished meeting with a medical and radiation oncologist to map out radiation treatments. We are not certain of the start just yet, but it appears that she will have 35 days of radiation.
Not long before she was diagnosed with breast cancer, she was diagnosed with Crohn's disease and was having a tough time. She just finished up her third Remicade treatment last week and is feeling a world better.
I will keep updates on her progress on the web site.

Please continue to keep her in your prayers.