Thu,
05 Jun 2003
Doing
Pretty Good
Howdy
everybody. It's Thurs morning and we're doing pretty
good all in all. Jade's having a fairly quiet week
and just resting and trying to get some energy/strength
back. He should be "bottoming out" with
all his counts today and tomorrow and then start to
climb up again.
We are now beginning to get firm dates set as to when
his harvesting (stem cells) would be and when he would
go in to the hospital for the auto half of the transplant
(LDS Hospital for the week of chemo to kill off his
remaining bone marrow, given immune sypression drugs
and then given his stem cells back). Hopefully his
harvesting would be the first or two week of July
and then like the third week of July he'd enter the
hospital for that month. Before Jade's next round
of traditional chemo (week of June 23rd) he has a
list of tests which must be done for "staging"
to see if any of the tumors are growing or detectable.
It is very encouraging to have the next part of the
process beginning despite it being somewhat intimidating.
The fund raising is going very well. This Fri, June
6, at the Hollywood Connection in WVC, KZHT 94.9 is
hosting a weenie roast for $5 a hot dog with all the
proceeds going to Jade. KZHT has been talking about
Jade just about every morning for the last week or
so. They are promoting the bracelets made by Deputy
Sampson. The Texas Roadhouse in Taylorsville is sponsoring
a lunch on June 14 from 11 to 1 with all proceeds
going to Jade. Keep checking the website for more
details but there will be door prizes/raffles/auction
items during that two hour window and the entire lunch
crowd will probably be supporters of Jade. Robert's
motorcycle ride is coming up on Sunday the 8th. Hopefully
we'll have good weather. Oh, and my brother reports
the golf tournament was a smashing success. They are
still getting the final numbers tallied from the participants
collecting their money, but it looks like we'll be
over $5,000 from the golf marathon in Dallas! Wow!
That's terrific!
We're hanging in there. Sadie has even stopped throwing
up. She's still going to the vet on Monday though.
We'll go ahead and include her update along with Jade's
blood counts on the Monday email. Thanks for all your
faith, prayers, notes/emails/voice mails, encouragement
and all around hope. It is so wonderful! Take care........
Love.....................Tanya and co.
