Mark Continues Radiation and Now Weekly Chemo
Mark is in Bangkok until November 14th working on closing out his lease to get his deposit back and saying Good-bye to friends, his treatment team, and the city he loves. If he were wealthy, he would stay in Bangkok longer. His doctors there have kept him alive 21 months when he was given three months or less to live at the time he was first diagnosed on the island of Saipan. He is so thankful to have good doctors.

Dr. Theera now has Mark on weekly chemotherapy of smaller doses instead of monthly larger doses and radiation is daily until he has received 15 treatments. This is of course expensive even though the price at Bumrungrad is far less than it would be in the states. Mark's sister called Mom from Japan, yesterday and caught her coming back from a high school reunion (another interesting story). Mark had not been able to reach mom and he couldn't access a small account he has to pay for treatment (His card would not work) and what to do to pay for his treatment on Thursday? Luckily mom has a small account in Bangkok too so she gave Mark the card but not the password before he left Texas for Bangkok. A sharing of the password gets this week's treatment paid for and then the thinking cap is on about paying next week.

Mark's sister is traveling in Japan this week. Mom just got back from high school reunion and heads to Miami Sunday before going to Bangkok on the 24th. We all keep in touch about every day with very low cost phone calls using our computers to call cell phones. What a wonderful technology-friendly time we live in!