Round 12

This time I was able to be with Jenna right from the beginning. She starts with getting her port accessed. Then she see another nurse who takes her vitals. Next she sees her doctor and they talk about treatment. Then she waits for a bit and goes up to get her treatments. But this time, she only saw the nurse that accesses her port and then got her treatment. I got to go with her while the nurse (one of her favorite nurses) assessed her port.

I was really interested in seeing how it worked. The nurse cleans it off and then she gets the port and pokes it into Jenna as fast as she can otherwise it would hurt. Jenna said it used to hurt but now she doesn't really even feel it.

Jenna didn't meet with her doctor this time. We (Jenna, Darren, and I) just waited and chatted with Scott and Kelly until it was time to go to Jenna's treatment. Scott and Kelly had to go. Nothing has changed with Jenna's treatments. She is still having the same three treatments right now. Lately Jenna feels pretty other than right after her treatment, when she still gets pretty tired and a little sick. As of right now, things are going pretty well!

Round 11

Now that it has been over a week since Jenna's treatment, I have left you all in suspense about her CT scan. She arrived at the Huntsman at 8am for her CT scan. After that, she met with her doctor to review the results. Things are going well: the spots on her liver and her tumors are continuing to shrink! Her CEA (carcinoembyonic antigen, a GI tumor marker) levels are back to normal at 2.4 ng/ml--previously they were 100 ng/ml. That is some really great news!! She and her doctor decided that she will be doing her treatments every 3 weeks. That way, she will be able to enjoy the holiday and not have to be so sick.

She received the same treatment as the last couple times. Jenna's friend Kelly came to visit again, so that was fun and made time go by much faster.

Jenna is grateful to be here everyday! She is also very grateful for all the thoughts and prayers of those around her! She is fighting because she has lots to fight for!!

Seattle

Jenna went to Seattle with her two girls to see the "Final Five" Olympic Gymnasts perform.

They also enjoyed some of the other things in Seattle. Such as the Gum Wall,

Pikes Market Center,

and the Ferris Wheel. The ferris wheel wasn't Jenna's favorite thing. 

They did lots of walking to see all of the sights. Jenna said she was surprised that all of that walking actually made her feel better.

She enjoyed her little getaway with her two girls!