Ok, another fast one. Many of you know, but most of you don’t, that Dr. Laquaglia’s office from New York called and left me a message Wednesday night saying they had a date for Eli. When I called back, their office was closed, so I talked to them Thursday morning and they said “We have surgery scheduled for Eli next Tuesday, the 9th. Please be here first thing Monday morning, the 8th.”
First of all, I thanked God for getting him in so quickly. It’s great timing as his counts are back up and there’s nothing else planned until surgery is over. Second, I panicked on how to get to New York by Monday morning! We (and Lindsay and Suzy and Adam, thank you guys so much) desperately tried to line up a private jet with many of our contacts, but unfortunately Sunday was just too late of notice. Fortunately, those will probably all be options for the way back home after surgery. But for this weekend, we rented a Ford Explorer (one way) and packed it up last night and are getting ready to head due East for New York City.
So, obviously some big prayer requests.
1) Safe travels to New York (and patience, it’s an 18 hour drive WITHOUT all of the required kid stops).
2) Successful surgery to remove the remaining tumor.
3) Quick recovery.
4) Praise that they got more than enough stem cells last Monday for two transplants and a backup.
5) Still pray that the stem cells we got are Neuroblastoma free.
We’ll probably be in New York for at least 2 weeks. Since this computer is the last thing I need to pack up, I’ll sign off and get it put away. Of course I’m taking it with me to New York (anyone that knows me knows that was completely unnecessary to point out) and I know they have high speed internet at the Ronald McDonald house. Hopefully I’ll have more time to update then. Thanks so much for all of your prayers!