First, wanted to thank everyone for all the support. Your messages of encouragement, compassion and love mean a lot to Michelle and the family. This past week has been busy and stressful but has also been positive as we prepare for our last fight.
We’ve spent long days with our herbalist and have been diligent about [...]

[Read more →]

This past Monday, one of our biggest fears started to materialize when we saw that Michelle’s daily CBC showed 8% blast cells in her peripheral blood. A feeling of disbelief came over me. Could this really be happening merely 10 days after her last bag of chemo? Our doctor told us to wait a few [...]

[Read more →]

I’m free (sort of)!  It feels good to be home.  Overall my stay at Hotel Kaiser was fine.  My fever went away by Friday evening and I really think that if my oncologist was on-call he would have discharged me over the weekend.  In any case, I got discharged on Monday.  I have daily blood [...]

[Read more →]

I have been way more emotional over the last couple of weeks.  This is worst than the mood swings I got from Prednisone in Seattle.  There is no doubt I have been enjoying my free time before I start re-re-induction, but there are moments when I feel blue.  Not a sad mopey blue, but a [...]

[Read more →]

If you watch How I Met Your Mother then you’ll understand the Intervention party Mabel threw for me today. I was caught off guard and could not stop bawling when I saw all of my friends at the surprise party. My dear pals read aloud letters written to intervene my relationship with Leuk [...]

[Read more →]