Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas, we certainly did. A few weeks before Christmas Kobie came home from school with a letter he wrote to Santa asking for a real little puppy. He showed us and kept asking for a “real little puppy” over and over and over. He even had to buy a carrier …
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Excitement
Tomorrow is the Relay for Life in Rocky Mount. Josh and I are very excited. Unfortunately Josh won 2 tickets to see Sugarland and he wants to go. However, we will be there for the survivor lap and will return after the concert is over! Josh will proudly be walking in the survivor lap. There …
CT results
Josh went to the doctor last week for a checkup. The cancer center was really busy that day and Dr. Schertz seemed rushed. He did a thorough exam on Josh but then didn’t really discuss the CT results other than saying everything looking “okay” which was okay since I always ask for the CT report …
1 Year!
Circumstances in life often take us places that we never intended to go. We visit some places of beauty and others of pain and desolation. I never imagined that cancer would be a part of my life history–especially not at the age of 23! Like with any great trial, God uses everything for good if …
and so it begins…
…our vacation. We are leaving today and driving to Raleigh and staying at a hotel tonight and flying out tomorrow. We are all very excited. We had planned on checking Kobie out of school before rest time so he would hopefully sleep on the way to Raleigh so I asked him when he wanted us …
The end is in sight!!!!
Can you believe that it is May already? I year ago we were a normally family doing normal things. Wait…whats normal? Anyway, we were all healthy or so we thought. Josh had cancer growing inside his body at an alarming rate. Remember the cancer was growing everyday and spreading about every 10 days. Today is …
More MD appointments
Josh had two doctor appointments on Friday. His first appointment was with Dr. Schertz. His second appointment was with Dr. Buck. Since Dr. Buck’s appointment went better I will begin with that. His head is healing well; his hair will start to grow back very slowly. Since the radiation kills the hair at the root …
1/2 way through with radiation!!!
Josh had radiation treatment #10 yesterday! The treatments have been going well with little side effects. Friday Josh has a checkup with Dr. Schertz and we will decide when to do the next CT. If everyone could keep my family in your thoughts and prayers we would appreciate it. My grandfather was taken to the …
2 radiations treatments down, 18 to go!
Today was Joshs second radiation treatment. I got to go in and see them get him ready for it. It was quite interesting. The room is huge and very relaxing, it has a sky light and a foundation with flowers. I got to see Joshs mesh cast thing for his head and watched them put …
1 Radiation treatment down, 19 more to go
The first radiation treatment is done! Josh said it didn’t take long, he said he listened to one song, a commercial, and part of another song on the radio. He did say the headcast he has to wear during the radiation is so tight he can’t even open his eyelids. I wasn’t able to go …
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