Saturday September 8^th – Today was just to hang out – got our walk in and talked to all the kids about where we are. A bike ride this afternoon and playing with Lexi in the river topped off by a great sunset reflected in the river.

 

Friday September 7^th – After a not so good night sleep – we were both awake by 4:30 and up by 6 – worried about Andrea. We looked at each other and said we are going home. We packed up and hit the road determined to see how far we could get today.  One little town had a Teapot shaped Gas Station that is in our 1000 places to see book.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We traveled diagonally across Washington State and had Oregon/Idaho in our sight when we got the news that Andrea’s first test came back with good news – no small intestine blockage – thanks for all those prayers. Now we struggled with “what to do” now.

 

We crossed into Oregon and hung it up for the night. We will wait a couple days for the test on the large intestine. If that is good they will send her home with new dietary (Possible liquid only) instructions and maybe some different meds. She is such a challenge to them – they really don’t know what to do. The Phase I study she was in for her cancer treatment has so few survivors (less than 5%) I’m pushing them to look in Phase II and III to see if similar problems exist and solutions may have been found at other test sites. When she gets released we will decide to travel more here or home.

 

We will just hang in here until then on the Columbia River – this valley is pretty nice. There is a Tillamook cheese plant near here that makes more cheese than in Tillamook. There is also a lot of river history because it was a wagon train route and Lewis & Clark trail also.