I said I wouldn't post for a while but I forgot Steve had an appointment with Dr. AJ (Onocologist) and everything was good. It was time for his 3 month chest xray and results were ok. This chest xray has been every 3 months because according to Dr. AJ Steve's kind of cancer reoccurs most of the time in the chest. Everything looks good. Steve had his last CT scan in July. AJ wants another in January. We asked if we could do this in December because my company is enrolling with a new insurance. Our previous insurance company has been bought out. That insurance has been great and sounds like that will be a thing of the past.

I have been on the phone a lot the last 2 weeks calling insurance choices that my company is offering, social workers, case workers, other insurance people, the dialysis center, etc... I found out the dialysis center in St. Joe is not contracted in the network with either of the insurance companies that my work is offering. This has been one big headache not to mention stressful.

The plan is to start our dialysis training on Nov. 16th. Might take 3 weeks. Probably 5 hours of training per day. Haven't worked this out completely with my work yet but will probably go to work for a couple of hours go to St. Joe for training then go back to work for a couple of hours. We will just have to see how it is going to work.

We are still planning on getting the catheter access on Nov. 10th. We just keep climbing the hill. Thank you for all your thoughts, prayers, good deeds.

Steve, Christy & Blair