Happy Birthday Phoenix! The big 9! Woo Hoo!!! We sure miss you doll baby! All we have been doing lately is chit-chatting about our wonderful children. What a crazy and scary time in their life this must be. I have no way to comprehend how this feels to small children. They are courageous, smart and loving kids.
Alex, Scarlett, Harrison, Jeremie Jr., and Phoenix, you all amaze your parents. We don't now what we did right to have such incredible people in our lives. Your dad misses the richness and fullness that you provide. We are never bored are we? We are so proud of how you all have chosen to help our family at this time. Running the household, making sure you all are fed, and going to school. Despite having something scary and out of control happening to our family. We both love you more than we could possibly ever say or do. And Thank You ALL :-)
Jeremie is beginning day two of his chemotherapy treatment. Today it is mixed with a different type of chemo, and he is beginning his medications that will decrease the incidence of graft-vs-host disease, when he is receives his cord-blood transplant on Thursday. He is starting to feel the effects from irradiation and the chemo. Total exhaustion and some nausea. He is achy and sore, but reports that the searing, bone-crushing pain that he was having has gone. He is quite alert today, and seems more like my Jeremie.
Tomorrow we will be adding more anti-graft-vs-host disease drugs, and it will be our last day of chemotherapy. Wednesday no chemo or radiation :-). Thursday...our day of miracles. Although each day has been a miracle.
We were asked when making the decision about cord-blood transplant to consider quality of life vs quantity of life. At that time it was thought that a cord-blood transplant would decrease his quality of life, and maybe just extend his life a little. Well as you noticed we took over a month to make this decision. And right now, with just the irradiation and chemotherapy I know for sure we made the right decision, and it has increased his quality of life, and as a consequence it will possibly extend his life. I'm praying as always that this will be our magic bullet. But grateful that if it isn't, that his pain is leaving his body.
Lots of Love,
Cori
You have amazing children because you are amazing parents... you are all the pillars of example in what a marriage, family and love is all about. XOXOXOXOXO
ReplyDeleteLove and prayers from the Eldredges and a big ((((HUG)))). Thanks for the update.
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