April 25-Out of the Clink
Brad is home and doing well.
Read More..>>April 22
All settled in and enjoying a spacious room with a southern view at Prentice, Brad has begun his chemotherapy. Brad and his brother and wife came by to watch the FIRST PLACE Cubs win. I am SURE that this is the Cubs year.(HA!HA!HA!-Let’s see what happens in oh—May when they start to tank and all […]
Read More..>>April 20-Still in Remission
Well, Brad and I spent a surprise evening downtown again. We just can’t get enough of 60611. NO-we were not at NMH spending another night on our Blue Cross plan. This time, we had a fun weekend at the W Hotel and whooped it up on Saturday night with shopping, dinner, and drinks. It was […]
Read More..>>April 13
We met with Brad’s doctor and have a plan in place to keep this silly cancer out on the porch(kind of like when Fred Flintstone puts the cat on the porch at night-not sure what made me think of that) and long gone. Brad will do 3-4 more cycles of chemo and continue with a […]
Read More..>>April 6 - no more cells. . . . oh well
Apparently my stem cells didn’t feel like cooperating yesterday. I might have to put them on ebay or Craig’s list. At least I can get this thing out of my neck though, I’ll make this time a little less adventurous. I will be doing more chemo […]
Read More..>>April 3- 1.2 million cells
Well, Brad collected 1.2 million stem cells so far for the needed 4 million. We are thrilled and hope for more success. Thanks for your prayers and continued support.
In other good news, the Cubs and Sox both squeaked out a win today to earn their $1.2 million.
April 2
Finally, a step in the right direction. Brad was able to have some baby stem cells collected today. Tomorrow will be more of a tell tale as to if we will get enough stem cells to proceed with the transplant.
In other news…Matthew now knows that tree frogs eat bugs!
Talk about a wide spectrum for the […]