Got results on dad’s cancer yesterday. The GREAT news: the cancer has NOT gotten bigger and has NOT spread. THANK GOD. The BAD news: the cancer tumors are still there. The GOOD news is that the tumors have gotten SMALLER. THANK GOD. So we are heading towards the right direction. 2 more months of chemo and recheck.

There are 2 things of CONCERN:

• Dad keeps losing weight. He has lost about 60 pounds in 5 months (13 pounds since March).
• The really big concern is that dad has a lot of fluid in the left lung – so much that they could not even see the tissue on the cscan due to the fluid. Now we will be going to a lung dr to see why this is happening and to get the fluid drain. As you know, he just was in the hospital a few weeks ago for the same thing.

Thank you so much for praying. I know God hears our prayers and is healing my dad. We have good and bad days but it is a journey that I know God is never left us alone.

Long story short, the CT scan from Sunday basically fell through the cracks. Furthermore the radiologist hasn’t read the CTs. So, the test results are unknown. 😐

We are suppose to call the doctor over the next couple days to find out the results.

At 7:40am CST this morning, Dad is schedule to get his last CT scan before he and mom gets the test results at 11:30am.   This round, Dad has had 4 treatments of chemo. Remember, dad is maxed out on his radiation, so chemo is the only option.

When dad was in the ER several weeks ago, they told us that the cancer has not grown, but it hasn’t shrinking either. The chemo is just maintaining it.  Furthermore, dad is already schedule for additional chemo on May 29th and we haven’t even seen the doctor yet.

I will let you know more as soon as I know something…

Some of yall know this, but most don’t… the Cunningham family have been doing some major, I mean MAJOR spring cleaning.

But first, let me explain something. Dad is a miniature hoarder. He likes to keep things for “future projects”. He has been saving things in the shed and barn for years. I found things that I had no CLUE was back there. Over the last 10 or so years, both buildings have been falling apart to the point of structure instability. For the last several years, we have always stated that we wanted to tear down both the shed and barn, but never did. Well, I said enough is enough and I push mom to see how much it would cost for a big dumpster so we can clean the shed and barn out out. She found a company in Pearland and so Jennifer and I rented the dumpster.

On April 26th, ten people from United Airlines that Dad works with and myself cleaned up the front and back yard and torn down the shed. These men that dad works with, they were doing this with pure respect and actually wanted to help. THEY WERE NOT, I REPEAT, THEY WERE NOT ASKING FOR ANY TYPE OF COMPENSATION. This guy’s respects Dad so much that they are willing to do about anything and everything for Dad and if that meant cleaning of the yard up, then that’s what it takes. Anyways, the yard got cleaned up along the shed got torn down and put in the dumpster.

On April 28th, we had the dumpster people pick up the load, dump it, and bring the dumpster back to the house. I then started cleaning the barn. It was in worst shape than the shed as far the physical structure and more creatures. Due the nature me working a full time job, it was a little bit slower cleaning process since it was just me instead of a crew of 10 people plus me. Mom helped me when she can, but she mainly supervise and make sure I didn’t get hurt or get bitten by a creature.

On May 3rd, two United Airlines people came out to the house and help me do some more cleaning in the barn. One of them brought a tracker with a front end loader, so it was easier to move things for the heaver stuff.

I continued to clean the barn. On May 7th, seven United Airlines people and myself torn down the barn and clean the rubble up. Currently, I have to clean some piles that I raked up and put tree limbs in the dumpster. I should have all of this done by May 11th.

To summarize, the front and back yard got cleaned up, the shed and barn was torn down along cleaning most of the junk that was inside them in the dumpster. Without the folks at United Airlines, I probably would not have been able to finish what needed to be finished in the allotted time frame.

The Cunningham family greatly appreciates every United Airlines guy that came out and help me clean the property up.

Yesterday was a GREAT day for dad. He went to the Astros game with my brother and was able to keep food down him and enjoyed the game. Today, NOT SO GOOD day. He threw up some blood but was able to keep his food down once we got him different type of food. This is the second time he has threw up blood over the last few days. Mom is going to contact the dr about it. It could be a good thing – the ulcer on the tumor could be breaking but it could also be a bad thing if it is coming from the lungs.

Please keep us up in your prayers.