Back on track... I have been using face book to communicate my progress. If your not on face book and want up dates please email me at rietze6@roadrunner.com, I'm trying to use one site to keep everyone informed.

Thanks for your patience

Steve

Kevin's Wedding Coming Soon!

Hi everyone. Jill again. Steve has continued to do pretty well, but yesterday he received a bone strengthening drug and he has quite a bit of bone pain. This can be a common side effect. He gets this by iv once a month. Hopefully tomorrow he will be feeling much better. Pray that he can feel well to be able to enjoy the wedding and festivities. Rehearsal dinner here tomorrow night, have been busy with that! We are so excited for Kevin and Alina and their big day on Saturday. While they are on their honeymoon, they will be celebrating 5 years of going out together! amazing. I pray that they have a wonderful wedding and enjoy the celebration of starting out their lives together.

Please pray that we can get all the necessary tests done before the stem cell transplant in a timely manner and that Steve would have strength and health throughout the process. If anyone is interested, Steve started a facebook but he doesn't visit it every day :) God bless, Jill

DOING GOOD!

Yea I remembered the password so we can communicate again!!!! This is Jill. Steve is at work today. He has been feeling good for the most part. Praise God! He went off the chemo drugs around the end of June. He slowly started to feel back to normal. The doctors for those who haven't heard said Steve is in partial remission. The next step is a stem cell replacement procedure. We just heard from a UCLA coordinating nurse and she is sending a list of things that need to be done before the procedure. We are looking at having it done after labor day.

We praise God for good blood test results, only 1 thing came back in the not normal range. Before he would have many things out of range. We are thankful for the reprieve and that Steve is feeling pretty good and energy level is much better. He is able to work more and more productively. Prayer requests: Steve is having a lot of back pain, which he feels is just like old pain, being "out of whack" and not being able to go to the chiropractor. Pray that the insurance will ok the stem cell procedure and for all the details to work out, for Steve's strength throughout and success with full remission, to God's glory.

Thank you for all your prayers and keep it up! Hope all of you are doing well, Scott Bell we are praying for you, glad your surgery was successful. ~Jill