Big Week

Monday 9/29/08
In case I haven’t mentioned it we have a daughter getting married and the wedding is this weekend.  We fly out Friday morning and arrive in New York at 1:00 pm.  We go straight from the airport to the rehearsal.  After we finish with the rehearsal and the rehearsal dinner we will go to [...]

Doctor Visit

Tuesday 9/23/08
I know many of you are wondering if I was serious about hiring in help.  I know you’re thinking you’ve heard me talk about doing this before and I’ve never done it, but I’ll have you know that I was very serious and I have interviews set up for the next 2 weeks.  I [...]

Understanding The Amish

Wednesday 9/17/08
Many of you know about, and were even unwilling participants, in the windstorm Ohio was hit with Sunday.  Because of the heavy gusts the power was out all around.  For those of you who don’t live around us, yes I said windstorm and power outages in the same sentence.  There was no thunder or [...]

We Made it Home

Sunday 9/14/08
 
We made it home last night safe and sound, but were a little depressed to find out about our Buckeye’s.   Our flight wasn’t do to leave until 11:35 am, but we were scheduled to leave the hospital at 7:00 am just make sure we made it across the border in plenty of time. [...]

More Stem Cells

Friday 9/12/08
Things here have been pretty uneventful.  The first round of stem cells were given to Gary via a lumbar puncture, the second set of cells were given through his IV port they have in his arm and today the last set of cells were given to him just like the first time we came [...]

More About Our Trip

Wednesday 9/10/08
Yesterday they took blood from Gary and ran the needed test’s to make sure everything was ready for his stem cell treatment.  They also gave him a special antibiotic and some growth factors to help the stem cells multiply.  They did a test to make sure he wasn’t allergic to the stem cells they [...]

First Day of our trip

Wednesday 9/10/08
I know I told everyone I would update on Gary yesterday, but I was still dragging from jet lag, SORRY!  So I’ll get everyone all caught up today.  
Getting through the airports was a piece of cake.  American Airlines took very good care of us and got us where we needed to be and [...]

We’re here

Monday 9/8/08
I’m totally exhausted, but I just wanted to let everyone know that we made it safe and sound.  I will give you more information tomorrow after I’ve had a good nights sleep.  Please continue with your prayers and good thoughts.

Getting Ready for Mexico

Sunday 9/7/08
I have spent most of my time since Wednesday making sure I have everything I need for Gary and I and the kids and our pets to make it through the next 6 days.  Our flight leaves at 10:05 tomorrow.  We  connect in Dallas and continue on to San Diego from there.  I will [...]