Dear ones,

This update is just to let you know that I am doing well.  This is day seven after chemo and things are looking up for the next two weeks; then it starts over… yuk and slowly, less yuk. The last chemo is scheduled for May 8. I still have to have three more spinal taps for methotrexate as a preventive.  I still have double vision which takes bicycle riding to a whole different level, literally.

My days are exciting!  I wake up, look in the mirror, and realize that my beard had covered a lot of ugliness and that I would like it back.  I still do not know what to think about my hairless dome; it’s a real head-scratcher. I continue my annual reading through the English Bible, the French New Testament, and the Moravian Daily Texts (288^thyear in print).  I then pray for events, places, and people (which includes a lot of you).  I then realize that it is 8:30 in the morning and there is a lot of daylight ahead.  I look at a couple of news sites, read RealClearPolitics.com (the good, bad, and the ugly), and then realize that is 10:00 and more daylight.  A nap usually finishes out the morning.  I’ll save the description of my full-agenda afternoons for another time, except to say that another nap is in order.

Thank you for the “in-couragement” through this process.  I am strengthened by you.  I am better focused because of you.

Dave/Daddy/Granddaddy/Doc Dave