On Tuesday, August 7 Tommy will be having all his scans done at Children's in Seattle. Our day will start at 5 AM and Lord only knows how late it will be till it ends. This is the first time we have done the scans since we started Tommy's chemo treatment. Tommy will be put "under" and there will be a CT scan, MRI, PET scan, Bone Marrow (that's a painful one) and x-rays to name the ones I can think of.
The good thing about the scans is confirming that the cancer has not gone else where in his body since starting the chemo. Tommy doesn't do well with waking up - he usually spends the next several hours puking. We hope that we can perhaps head it off with some sort of medication.
My parents (Kim's folks) are here -- and we can not express the relief they bring us! This is exactly what we needed - support and help while Tommy is actually having a procedure done. Especially now while there is no daycare for Maggie. Gee and Papa will be holding down the fort with Maggie and doing all the cleaning -- let me tell you, my dad cleans! Between him and my mom, the floors will have been swept and hand washed, dishes clean and put away, everything dusted, laundry washed, dried and folded on our beds, baths all scrubbed till the chrome shines and the mirrors sparkle! AND they'll have dinner waiting for us -- we'd LOVE for them to just move in!
Then on Wednesday, August 8 Tommy will have his surgery where they will cut out where his previous surgery was and any scare tissue from it. This is also being done at Children's in Seattle. Tommy and I will spend the night there afterwards and we believe the plan is to go home some time on Thursday with a post follow up a week or two later. Then we'll be back to chemo either the week of the 20th or the 27th.
We have the best family and friends! My best friend from when I was 14, Kim (yes, her name is also Kim) will be coming up the week of Tommy's next chemo treatment to help with Mag's while we have no daycare. Kim's maiden name is Eno -- while growing up I always called her Kim Eno (I still do, sorry Dave -- she'll always be an Eno in my mind) but said it so fast that it sounded like I was saying Camino and for years my brother in law thought her name was Camino, HA! Like the El Camino car - Kim got that her entire life till she married Dave. Now she's Mrs. Little. Good thing she didn't name any of her three son's Stewart, that would have been VERY bad!!!
Okay, well enough of the silly stuff. We ask that everyone keep the prayers going and put the white light around Tommy and say he's cancer FREE! Much love to you all! <><
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HELLO FAMILY YES WILL BE PRAYING THAT ALL TESTS FOR TOMMY ARE NEGATIVE ,BY NOW THEY ARE OVER SINCE IT'S LATE EVENING. YES I KNOW HOW YOU MOM AND DAD CLEANS BELIEVE ME. THEY POLISH, SHINE AND POLISH AND SHINE AGAIN. I KNOW THEY ARE GREAT HELP AND SUPPORT IN EVERY WAY AS YOU SAID JUST WHAT YOU ALL NEEDED. WILL WAIT TO HEAR THE RESULTS OF TESTING. THEY TOOK TERESA EGGS TODAY AND WHATEVER ELSE THEY NEED TO DO SO THEY WILL TRANSFER THEM BACK ON FRIDAY OR SUNDAY FOR THE ACUTAL IN VITRO. GOING TO LOOK AT HOUSES IN MORNING.AGAIN THINKING POSITIVE FOR TOMMY AND PRAYERS FOR HEALING WE KNOW GOD HAS THE POWER TO DO THIS FOR TOMMY. LOVE AND PRAYERS AUNTIE BOOTSIE THAKS FOR THE UPDATE LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING.
We've been praying and we are anxious to hear a good report for Tommy. Hang in there, we know what you're going through!!!
Lovebug Hugs,
The Robertson's
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