A plan is in place...

We have made our decision and plans are made that we are going to the Moffit Cancer Center in Tampa for treatment. The children are staying here with family and friends while Steven and I go to Tampa next week to begin treatments. He will then find housing, etc and we will bring them up when that is arranged, with help in tow. For now, they will be well loved and taken care of at home, they have so many offers from friends for playdates, etc. they will be so busy they wont even notice we are gone. Well that would be my hope, even though we know they will miss us, as we will them more than they could ever know. We know that the right decision has been made and feel at peace with it. We are ready to begin our this journey once again.

Monday I will hear what day we need to be there to meet the doctor and make plans. We been in contact with Moffit getting and appointment and my oncologist and he is working to set it in place.

We can not possibly express how much the love and support we are recieving from everyone means, it is overwhelming. People around the United States are ordering kits because friends and family spread the word, people who do not even know us, that is awesome and amazing.

In bad times, there is always good, and there is alot of good things happening to us as well right now.

I plan to use this blog to update everyone on what is happening with our family, lots of medical updates, and I hope photos too. I love photography and I hope to "show" you what is happening in the hospital. Probably not alot of me, more of our environment, etc. I love reading other blogs and sites and learning from them, and in the future, this blog will help others through the process, as I have learned so much from sites I read.

I had a bone marrow biopsy which determined that my Leukemia had returned, or relapsed on Monday. This is a photo of the kit after the doctor had done the biopsy. The blood is from my hip bone and the kit also contains a small sample of my marrow, or spongy material in my bones. After that, it was packed up and sent to a lab for processing in New Jersey.

This weekend we are hoping to get everything ready for the kids, and most of all enjoy being with them and relaxing a bit. This has been going on since last Thursday and honestly this week has been harder than any day on chemo last year it seems. We were asked to make life changing decisions and plans for our children, myself, etc. in no time at all, it seemed nearly impossible to do. But we are doing it and know that along the way there will be bumps in the road and they will be ok too.

Don't forget if you want to possibly be a donor to me or someone else who needs one, go to http://www.marrow.org/ and order a kit to be mailed to you, or if you are here come out on Sunday to the drive and register there.