Jon is on #5 of the 12 chemos in this session. Everything went pretty well today but he is starting to get the "hand/foot syndrome" they warned us about. Currently his hands and feet are only slightly red but apparently they can become quite swollen and even blister with the Doxil. To prevent this they give him ice packs for his hands and feet during the chemotherapy and then he is supposed to continue with the ice packs for 2-3 days after chemo. His white and red counts were all still low so he grudgingly agreed to the Nupogeon injection which I am supposed to give him tomorrow night.

Jon also mentioned today that his liver is a little sore since starting the Doxil and it seems to get a little more so each day. We are encouraged that this is a sign of more tumor death since it correspondended with the onset of a new treatment. They drew blood for his tumor marker today so we should know more next week.

We've had more discussion with the doctors on the liver resection and asked about the laproscope. They are all going to discuss it with Dr. Chue and get more information to us next week. In the meantime we continue to reasearch surgeons and I am going to collect all his scans and start to schedule some consultations. I guess we(at least I) went from being a little surprised and overwhelmed by the possiblity of surgery to excited about the possiblity of a real cure.

Jon's spirits are ususally good and he is planning on driving over to Idaho with Rex to see our friends Ray and Leone who are visiting their ranch in Riggins. He's been pretty tired towards the end of the week, post-steroid crash, so I'm happy he is not going on the trip alone.