Hi everyone -

This time I'm going to try and just give you the facts so Scott can elaborate on them later. He's been desperate to send out an email for himself. He's worried that you all might believe I have to do all his speaking and thinking for him - - that's not true.

As you know, 5 weeks ago, Scott had two grand mal seizures that led to the discovery of 3 very aggressive new tumors. Given their location and extremely fast growth, it is true to say that none of Scott's doctors would be surprised if even right now he were in his last days, but he's not! The best hope the doctors could offer was to try and slow this thing down with a marginally effective older chemo. We know that the best chance he has at beating this is going to be a miracle from the Lord. That's where all our hope rests.

Today, January 11th, 5 weeks later, Scott's language abilities have really shown improvement and he's getting better at reading! He very rarely has any small seizures. He may have had one while we were in CO, but that seemed to be the result of exhaustion.

Today, he also had his MRI and overall we have very exciting news! The down side is it seems that the tumors have shown some growth, but not anywhere close to the rate they were growing 5 weeks ago. If they had continued at that pace, he might not be here now. The really exciting news, which we could tell has kind of baffled his doctor, is that the largest tumor is showing definite signs of death in the middle. We saw it for ourselves on his MRI and it's amazing, it's clearly dieing inside! With brain tumors, the best they ever hope for is to halt the growth but death of the tumor is a really unusual thing, especially given the agressive nature of this recent tumor. Remember, his surgeon said he 's almost never seen a tumor grow this quickly in 20 years. Now it seems to suddenly be dieing!! That's miraculous. We're so excited about this news.

We are praising God and so thankful to all of you for your thoughts and prayers. Please pray that this tumor will continue to die and any new growth would stop. Scott also received his next chemo treatment today and is very tired as a side effect. He'll have another MRI and chemo treatment in 4 weeks.

Blessing to you,
The Grays