One Week at Home

We enjoyed spending one whole week at home! What a treat that was! It's great to see Christen hobbling along on only one crutch for balance/support. As always, there are ups and downs day to day in her progress, and she struggles with headaches and nausea. Early this morning we returned to UVA for needed transfusions and Christen also woke up with a fever, so she will need to stay in the hospital for several days. She would much rather be home but is such a trooper through all of this. We have to wait for blood cultures to come back determining if there is any kind of infection causing the fever, her blood pressure needs to stay stable, and her blood counts need to be increasing on their own before she can return home. We are scheduled to be back at UVA on the 19th for the first of three weeks in a row of chemo, so it would be nice to get back home before then. As of today, we have spent 92 days in the hospital and 70 days at home so far this year. We are very grateful for all of the support we have received from all of you in SO MANY ways making our lives much more bearable. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Please continue to pray that the cancer be totally eradicated from her body.
Pray, too, that we will all keep our eyes fixed on Jesus. It is sometimes hard to see the beauty of life when death keeps shaking it's ugly fists tauntingly at you, yet we do have so much to be thankful for. Praise God we have a future and a hope in Him, and that He is victorious even over death.
I am continually reminded that this life is but a brief moment, then comes eternity.

Blessings to each one of you out there :-).

Debbie, for all of us