Colson Update 8/27/05

Dear All,

I wanted to take a moment to give you another update...

Today (Saturday) we went back to UVA and several more tests were run. Joey had several ultrasound pictures taken, a very detailed CT scan, and 8 viles of blood drawn with MANY tests run on those.

The tests showed no tumors and no obvious infection, which are good things... However, this means the doctors still are not sure what is causing this complication. Because of this, they still would not admit Joey today for his chemo. They are in a somewhat difficult situation because it is imperative to keep the chemo treatments going steadily, but there are also serious dangers of such treatments when parts of the body are functioning incorrectly.

The doctor wants Joey to see what happens over the weekend, get mroe blood work done on Sunday for testing, and then head BACK to UVA on Monday. Then, they will make more decisions about what the next step should be.

I know that so many of you are praying - and your emails and prayers mean so much. Please pray they will be able to figure out what is happening in Joey's liver so his chemo treatments will not be delayed any longer, and pray also for both of us because Monday is my first day of school at FMS, so I won't be able to be with Joey for a large portion of the day on Monday. God has been so faithful to us and we know that ultimately He will work through this whole situation.

I will do my best to continue to keep you all updated!

Love, Cynthia