Hospital Stays

Pat will have to go into the hospital August 4 for a bone marrow biopsy. That is where they drill a hole into her hip, yes it hurts. So they are going to drug her well (hahah). She also my need some platelets at that time. So if any one is willing and able to donate some blood or platelets to the City of Hope that would be great.

(for those who can not read the strip it says : "you can have general anethesia or just be numbed from the wallet down") haha

She will then be admitted to City of Hope right after Labor Day she will be given some higher level Chemo to kill off her cancer cells for a week, and then she will receive the donor transplant. Then she will receive more chemo to wipe out the rest of her blood cells and to help accept the new cells. Then she will have to wait until the news cells set up shop in her bones. Then it is wait and see with her immune system after that. Once release from the Hospital she will have to stay close, so will set her up with the 5th wheel or in what City of Hope calls the Village. (where they have little apartments set up). She will see the doctor twice a week for a 100 days after released from the hospital. Then she can come home. However this schedule can change without notice and is just a general guide line and not set in stone by any means. If you have questions or what to make comments to Pat please do so there is a comment box at the need of each entry which then sends me and Pat an email with the comment. We would love to hear from all of you. I would love to know who if anyone is reading this.

Hope

Found a Donor

Pat, Joel and my self (Hope) all went to City of Hope today. Found out good news we have a Donor match. The donor is 33 years old, that is about all we know. They match my mom' s blood 11 points out of 12 which is great. So now begins the hard part for my mom to go through the transplant, so it looks like she will be admitted into the hospital right after labor day. Then it is 7 weeks in the hospital, then lots of different stages of recovery and time in recovery any where from 9 months to a year all in total. I will keep this blog updated as I get information. I will try to have my mom write something on it soon. I put a link of up for all those who want to found out more details about the transplant process. It is listed under Transplant process on the right hand side. Thank you all for your love and concern.

Hope

Great News

I (Hope) Went with my mother and father to City of Hope today to see how she was doing and to hear any information about the possible Donor. We heard good news all around. First news is that her cancers cells are not detectable which means she back in remission!!!!!!!! The second good news is that her platelets went up from 57 to 61. Which is great. This means most likely she will be able to go on her trip. However, this all needs to maintain for over a period of time. So the next couple of weeks we need to keep her in remission and it would help if you Platelets would go up more with out the cancer going back up. So if you all could have thoughts and prayers of cancer still down and platelets going up.

For more good news, City of Hope and my mom's wonderful doctor found 14 possible match's which they contacted to more testing and out of the 14; 4 went in for testing and one looks really good. They have more test to do, but the test they have done so far have been with good results. So a very possible donor now. Still have to wait more, but we will take the good news for now and be happy.

Found out a little more about the donor process for my mom's end: it is 6 to 7 weeks in the hospital and 6 months at home with bi-weekly visits and then 9 months to a year to maybe go back to work.

That is all for now

Hope

Hurry UP and wait

City of Hope found a possible donor, the person lives in Europe. That is all we know about them. City of Hope has contacted them to go in for more testing. The person did and we are now waiting for the results. We will not know more for a while, it seem like a hurry up and wait kind of thing. But it is good news for now. On this end my mom's numbers need to go in the correct direction. Her plasma needs to go up and the cancer cells need to go down. She has the down part correct, we just need to work on the up part. We are all glad about the possible donor and are waiting to hear more. When I do I will let you know. (my mom has tried to post some blogs, but it has not worked out well for her yet.) That is all for now. Thank you all for caring.

Hope

pictures of the Drive

Family hanging around talking with everyone who came by.

Nice to see people and visit.

Finaly a good picture was taken of Pat

Bone Marrow Drive

Donor Drive finally happened. Thank you all for coming!



Hi,

Saturday was the bone marrow donor drive. Thank you so much to all that came. We had a great turn out and enjoyed visiting with everyone who came. It was fun to see everyone. After is was all said and done we had 40 people sign up.

A big special Thanks to Rotary for their donation to the City of Hope. Perris Rotary is one of the best clubs in California. The donation will help lots of people find Hope.


Picture upper right is Our Rotary President giving the donation to Jesika who is from City of Hope.


Thank you all for your thoughts and love

- Pat-

Bone Marrow Drive

We are going to have a Donor Drive for my mother (Pat as you all know her) It will be on June 6th from 11am to 3pm. It will be at Perris Congregational Church 100 North A st Perris CA 92571

In order to donate you have to be between the ages of 18 and 60 years old. No major health concerns such as HIV,diabetes, or have cancer.

Please come and join our family in supporting City of Hope and My wonderful mother!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I will try to have the City of Hope information up on this site as soon as Kevin teachs me how to do it. Hope to see you all on the June 6th. Even if you can not donate come out and see us. Thank you.
That covers it for now see you all soon
Hope