Kelly 3/3/07

Just received this from Don.


Sorry I haven't written in awhile. Right after we visited with the doctors, I came down with a flu bug and have been in the room since. Didn't have any way to e-mail.

The doctors told us that the biopsy did show leukemia in Kelly's kidney. He said that this is common in relapse patients. There are some that only relapse in their kidneys. The good news is that the bone marrow is in remission and the size of the area they biopsied is getting smaller. The doctors feel the chemo is doing what it is suppose to do.

Now we have to decide what we want to do as far as the chemo goes. Kelly decided to do the next round in the hospital and went in on Tuesday for five days. She got out this morning at about 11:00. This time around, the chemo wasn't so hard on her. She is tired but that is about it right now. She doesn't have the pain she had last time.

We are going to visit with a team of people next week to go through our options for what to do next. One option is to go on oral chemo and go home. This sounds good to Kelly. So, we might be going with that and could be home by the first of April. We will let you know after we have our meetings and make our decision. One of the other options is to keep going on with what we are doing now. That would be in the hospital for a week of chemo, out for two week or until her counts are back up, and then back in the hospital for a week. We would continue this cycle for eight times. That would mean 48 weeks if everything went according to the plan. This does not sound very good to us. We will have to see!!

Continue to pray that Kelly stays strong and that as a family we can come to the right decision for all of us.

Kelly got out of the hospital just in time today. They have what they call a hockey challenge to raise money for the Ronald McDonald House. The local semi-pro team, Thunderbirds, play celebrities in a number of games. So, some of these people came to the house to meet with the kids and their families. Kelly, Molly and Rose met the guy that plays Lex Luther on Smallville. They all thought he was pretty "HOT". They also met a couple of guys for General Hospital and Tom Arnold. Tom was a kick. I think the girls enjoyed Michael,Lex Luther, the best.

Kelly is in the room taking a nap and then I think we are going to Red Robin for supper. She has a friend her visiting from Gig Harbor. They were best friends when we were here in 1999.

We all loved the quilts that were sent with all the well wishes and signatures. We all had a few tears reading the messages.

I will try to do better in the future with the e-mails. I will try to get one out every two to three days if not more.

God Bless,

Don