Iowa City

Hello again! Just wanted to give everyone a quick update on what happened in Iowa City yesterday. Dad's test results from his bone marrow biopsy could not have been better! From the test that they have done so far they can not find any cancer! They can't officially say that he is cancer free but from the the test they have done they could not find any cancer! We are so thankful! It has been almost two years since dad was diagnosed with leukemia and even though he is defiantly not out of the woods yet we are just so very thankful that things seem to be moving in the right direction! So thank you everyone for all your prayers!!

There are a few other things that we would really appreciate some prayer for. Dad's liver counts are still too high so we would appreciate some continued prayer that his counts would come down to a normal level. Also the results of this biopsy still showed that dad's immune system is very low, so we would appreciate some prayer that he and the rest of the family would not get sick. He has also been trying to get off the steroids again and the last time he got off of them his GVH flared up so we would appreciate prayers that the doctors could keep his GVH under control. (he started to get a little more of a rash again this week).

Ok now for some other news. So Dad has been telling Mom and I that we need to get out of the house for a little bit and have some fun, so we decided to take a cake decorating class! We just finished taking the first course and we start the second one up again in a couple weeks but I thought I would share a couple pictures of the finished cakes that we made this week! Keep in mind we are defiantly not professionals but I think for only taking four classes so far they look pretty good! Well thats all from our house! Thank you again for all your thoughts and prayers! Have a good day! Elisabeth