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yes, that is the number of times i have posted on this blog site!!! you would think by now i would have run out of things to talk about...i wish!!!

it is official...we are going in for another round of chemotherapy on thursday. i wish i could tell you exactly which kind of chemo, but for now we are still scheduled for ICE but that is subject to change throughout the day. tims platelet count did not reach the minimum level (they want it to be at least 75 - we are hovering around 57) but the doctor has decided we had better not prolong the admission any longer...so in we go.

tims arm tumors are getting bigger and more painful. hopefully they will come up with some sort of plan between now and tomorrow afternoon. the ICE will shrink them but it appears to not hold for very long...the mighty minds of hershey med are "giving it some thought" and will let us know tomorrow.

tim is kinda quiet tonight...but that is expected. we finally are starting to enjoy this warm weather and he has to go back into the hospital...bummer. we are both discouraged with the tumor growth. he will miss a few soccer games (which he hates to miss).

i think today he was trying to make up for time he will lose...this afternoon we swung by the middle school and saw megan helping teach field hockey to 6th graders...we watched a few minutes of the high school girls soccer team practice...we drove to the high school and watched a whole varsity girls softball game (which by the way we have no biological children playing-just friends of our children)...then we went back to the middle school and watched the last few innings of the boys JV baseball game (which by the way we have no biological children playing-just friends of our children).

at first i was thinking..."like we don't have enough sports to watch with our own kids..." but then i realized that he loves the sports and loves the kids and loves being outside (when it is warm). i guess it didn't kill me to watch a few more hours of high school sports if it makes him happy.

well...it is getting late and i am way behind on stuff around here...gotta get going.

keep praying.

thanks for checking in.

tim and tammy

ps...ashley PASSED her impact test this week (by 0.8 points). she practiced soccer tonight for the first time in weeks (and no ambulances or atheletic trainers or head injuries or sprains or bruises or...). pray that she can condition enough to try to get some playing time these last few games.