Prayer Needs

Hello framily (friends that have become family and family),

As we head into the next 22 days, we are back into the craziest part of an election - the HOME STRETCH! We never imagined that while we were working hard for a victory on November 6th, we would be on this cancer journey. BUT God! He knew! So this craziness is no surprise to him.

So as so many of you are praying for us. We have some specific needs.

1. As we head towards the election, for volunteers to help with A) putting signs up for early voting and election day and B) "parking lot ministry" during early voting.

2. That Alan will let others help us and not work early voting at the polls, so he doesn't get more fatigued than he already will be with treatment and moving his office.

3. Alan's side effects have been better with the medication, but the medication is now causing its own side effects. Prayers for the drugs to keep working, but their side effects to vanish.

4. He left today to be in Ft. Worth until Wednesday this week for a speaking engagement he committed to before we were aware of the recurrence of his cancer. Prayers for strength, clarity, and safety.

Thank you all. We appreciate our prayer warriors so much.

-Mel

Staying the Course

So naturally Alan doesn't do anything the "normal" way! I mean, come on, as a blond Aggie lawyer, he is not normal!

So the entire colorectal team decided that they want to have Alan stay the course for now. So he will go down to nivolumab only as planned! BUT they want to keep a close eye on him just in case the growth is not pseudo growth but real. So instead of the standard 3 month scan, he will have one after 2 months. 

So his first treatment is this week, then every other week for a total of 4 treatments of nivolumab only. Then they will scan him again and see if the growth has become stable or decreased.

Side effects may still increase as the half life on the drugs is quite long and are not expected to decrease. 

Prayer Requests:

• Positive attitudes to continue in and around us
• Side effects to continue to be minimal
• Nivo only to kick Marvin K Mooney out of Alan's body
• Continued patience as we now wait for definitive results in 2 months
• For a sweet time this weekend in College Station

Thank you all for your continued faithfulness in praying over these needs. Thank you all for loving on us.