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As I keep all updated on Glenn, here is the latest, from his wife on 8/17/11—please keep Glenn in your prayers, as always feel free to email  messages and words of encouragement to him at racingtoregister@gmail.com

8/17/11

Hi everyone,

It has been a few days since the last update. We wanted to keep you up to date with the progress. Glenn normally writes but this  time I am doing it.

The kids and I visited him today and we did all the talking as Glenn just sat and nodded. Glenn’s last few days have not been very pleasant and have been pretty crappy (the word I will use J ). His mouth is so swollen inside and out. His tongue is triple in size and his mouth is full of sores. They have him on morphine and steroids to help with the pain and the swelling. Unfortunately, we knew the mouth sores were a side effect of the chemo but perhaps we were hoping he would skip this side effect. His nurse says he is a trooper and is obeying the staff as with regards of what to do. A simple task of eating a popsicle is taking him half an hour to eat a ¼ of it or a few bites of applesauce. He gargles with a couple of different medicines and hopes this will help. The nurse said the sores may last a week. We are on day 4of the mouth sores. He compares it to a football being shoved down your throat with all razors on it. The nurse said way worse then strep throat..so if you have had it then you can imagine perhaps..

Today, he also surprised us by taking a chunk of hair out of his head…so now he will soon sport a new hair style.

Thank you for all your prayers and emails. I do forward them to Glenn so he is reading them although he may not respond to them.

He is quite tired too still so that too is par for the course.

But..we know that even as Glenn is going through this dark time, the Lord is holding his hand..or I like to think as read in the Footprints Poem, the Lord is carrying him in His healing arms.

Thanks you and we will continue to keep you posted.

Michelle