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16 months in…

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  Thank you all for your fervent prayers for Jon. God is continuing to answer your requests and I’m happy to report his CEA today is 4.6, a point down from last month and indicative of continued success with this treatment regime! He will receive his infusion over the next couple of hours, and then he will be set for the next month until his scan at the end of April (no date yet). The scan will give us more info in choosing the next step, which we pray will just be more of the current treatment as he has handled it so incredibly well.  He has had NO treatment-related fatigue, nausea, weight loss, pain, depression, colostomy complications, diet restrictions, or difficulty concentrating (important for an engineer). While the cyclical rash you see does flare angrily shortly after treatment, it doesn’t bother him much and is gone in a couple weeks. His health compared to a year ago is nearly unbelievable, except that God is his Great Physician. He alone chooses to bless means or withhold t