Bennett is doing good.  It seems his appetite is decreasing.  He has mentioned for the last couple days that he feels nauseated while eating.  We had noticed he had been eating less at meal time and not snacking very often.  There have been a few nights that he has skipped dinner.    I am assuming it is from the chemo pills he takes daily and weekly.  This coming Tuesday is his next Dr. appt in St. Louis.

Bennett’s team tonight played in Pinckneyville.  We won 50-27.  He played every quarter.  He did pretty good.  He said the guy he had to guard was pretty pushy, I thought he looked huge. Bennett did well guarding him though and had a couple rebounds.

We found out today that our friend Ross Heern from Thompsonville that has non-hodgkin’s lymphoma is in St Jude’s with mono.  Our friend Ryan is in the ICU at SLCH for low blood pressure, he had a high fever and now has pneumonia.  Our little cowboy Ethan goes Monday to Philly again for his 2nd treatment.   Our friend Brittani is now on the lung transplant list for the second time.  We have many more friends that we have met that our on our hearts, minds and prayer list.   We pray for all these special friends and every child that is battling some type of disease.  They are just so young to be dealing with such grown up stuff.

“Don’t give up, don’t ever give up.”‘