We are thrilled and so grateful that Kelly has successfully completed her last round of IP chemo! Her surgery to remove her IP port is scheduled for Monday (Sept 12) at the Sarah Cannon Cancer Center at Centennial Hospital in Nashville. Her ANC (Absolute Neutrophil Count) aka her blood work was a little shy of what it needed to be Friday morning. Please pray that her levels go up this weekend so they can proceed, as she is beyond ready to have this thing out. 

     She has been in a great deal of pain since her final IP chemo (and really since they put in her IP port in June), a lot of which has had to do with her port inflammation. So removing this port is the main thing on all of our minds right now. 

     She also had a bit of a setback last week when her potassium level came back slightly low. Her doctor put her on potassium supplements for a week to correct her low potassium. When they checked her potassium level on Friday it was critically high, which is concerning as this can cause a variety of problems including heart attacks. They then put her on lasix (a potassium wasting diuretic) this morning to correct her potassium level. Pretty frustrating considering her diet is extremely high in potassium and it more than likely would have leveled out on its own. For the time being her diet is even more restricted to exclude high potassium foods. Please pray her potassium levels are back to normal on Monday. 

     After surgery they will do another PET/CT scan, tentatively scheduled for September 28th, that will hopefully again show no evidence of cancer! Thank you for your continued prayers! 🙏🏼 

First road trip in awhile (outside of chemo) Labor Day weekend to Sam and Taylor's house in Collierville for their house blessing.