July 30 morning

Sorry for the long absences. I finally talked with Geoff last night. Randi was admitted into the hospital earlier this week and received another round of Chemo. A stronger dose then she got here. They are now at home (a apartment in Houston), she will be at the hospital daily for testing. Geoff is taking care of her, and she is becoming a champion hurler( throwing up a lot).
She did not get into the study, there were some complications. Hopefully this round will put her in remission, and they can do ahead with the transplant.

Thanks for the continue support and prayer.

Ali

confusion

Hi, just a quick note to clear up some confusion. I put a link a while back to Compass bank where we set up a donation account for Randi and Geoff. The link was only so if someone needed to find a location. Unfortunately there is no way to make a donation online. I hope this helps and sorry for the confusion.

Thanks
Ali

July 15, evening

Talked with Randi today, It was great to talk with her, she sounded like herslef. She said her fiend Carrie said "she liked this Randi better then hospital Randi." I agree.
She talked with the Dr today and they have decided to admitt her to MD Anderson on Monday. She will be the 4th person on a new clinical trial. The way I understand it is this. The type of lukemia she has is resist to the chemo, so the inject her with some type of molecule that make it easier for the chemo to work and kill those nasty blast cells. Then or at the same time they will also give her more chemo. She will be inpatient for 1 week, then out for 3 more weeks. Not sure yet who will be staying with her and when. They will have to find housing near the hospital, within a 10 minute drive.
Deb and Hank are making the long trip with the boys to Houston tomorrow. Pray for their safe travel and their sanity. They will spend at least the weekend together, possibly the week.

Updates may not come as quickly, because there may not be much to tell.

Thanks
Ali

July 13, afternoon

Sorry its taken so long to update everyone. Here is what I know. They meet with the Drs. at MD Anderson and although the initial results look good, on Friday they got bad new that she has blast cells in her bone marrow.
Geoff and Randi are in Dallas with his parents waiting to go back to Houston, for more testing and see where they go next. As we have been told before the type she has is one of the ugliest to treat. More then likely it will be more chemo and then waiting to see where she stands.
A bit of good news because Josh is not as much of a match as they would like, they went to the registry and found 12 potiental donors. Ususally they are excited to find one or two. So when the time comes for transplant, there should be a match.
Please keep praying.

July 7, afternoon

Just a update. Geoff and Randi have left for Houston on Sunday. They were able to work out the kinks with insurance and such. The plan is to initially be in Houston at MD Anderson for a week for evaluation and consultations. After the week what happens is still unknown..

Ali

July 4, morning

Happy 4th to all. And thank you to all soldiers and veterans..

Ok. here is where everything stands as I know it.
Randi has been approved for a consultation and evaluation at MD Anderson in Houston. They have to be there on Thursday for her first appointment and are expected to stay for about a week. If all goes well and they can get approval from the insurance their stay may be extended. Travel arrangements are still up in the air. So we are again waiting. MD Anderson will run their own typing test to see about a marrow donation, and who is a match. Prelimary tests say Josh is a 50% match.

The boys will be staying here will Geoff and Randi head to Houston.

July 1, morning.

Hi, to all. Thanks Micki for keeping everyone updated in my absence. I was away from home when we got the good news about Randi going home. She is now home and from what I heard had a good night.

The plan as I know it is to get her to a hospital to do her transplant asap. They are currently looking for one because there has been some issues with getting her into MD Anderson in Houston. That is the one we had hoped to send her to but it looks like it might not happen, so please pray that we find the right doctors and hospital for her. She will be home for the next 10 days, and if not admitted to another hospital elsewhere, its back to pres for the next round of chemo.


Now because she is home, it is time to start cooking again. We need some meals for the family. Geoff works 2 jobs as most of you know, so this is one less thing for him to worry about. If you can do frozen meals that's great. Let me asap so we can feed them. I believe they have one or two meals still in the freezer from the last go around. So hopefully we can get them some by this weekend.

Thanks
Ali
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