Day 85

     Katie and I spent 5 hours at the clinic today.  Not our favorite day.  Grandmas Epps took care of Conner for us and we are very grateful.  Katie's levels were good today, so they were able to proceed with her treatments.  Katie's liver functions are still high, but not so high they couldn't proceed.  The doctor said Katie's tiredness (not wanting to walk up or down the stairs) is probably due to the chemo treatments. 
     Katie has done okay so far tonight.  Katie has been tolerating the treatments amazingly well during this phase.  Hopefully that will continue.  Although, Dr. Dana said things will start getting hard again as we continue to up her doses of chemo.   She goes in again on the 13th.  If her levels are good, then she will get the higher doses of chemo PLUS a spinal tap of chemo.   So, it is a waiting game, to see how she does this next 10 days, and then we will go from there.    
     "We must have opposites from which we can choose, or we would not be able to act for ourselves."  Elder Bruce R.  McConkie taught,  "Unless there is darkness, there can be no light; unless there is vice, there can be no virtue; unless there is hate, there can be no love" (The Mortal Messiah 4:89)  "For it must needs be, that there is an opposition in all things.  If not so, righteousness could not be brought to pass, neither wickedness, neither holiness nor misery, neither good nor bad.....And if there be no righteousness there be no happiness.  And if there be no righteousness nor happiness there be no punishment nor misery.  And if these things are not there is no God.  And if there is no God we are not, neither the earth; for there could have been no creation of things, neither to act nor to be acted upon;  wherefore, all things must have vanished away....I speak unto you these things for your profit and learning; for there is a God, and he hath created all things, both the heaven and the earth, and all things that in them are, both things to act and things to be acted upon" (See 2 Nephi 2:11-16).
     Today we are glad for the Biggs family who graciously brought us dinner again tonight.  Thank you!