Biopsy updates

Lans with one of her nurses. Below she rode in style to radiation today- all red-socked and looking cute!
Sweet Tiffy, our sis-in-law in Indiana has felt rather helpless throughout Ilana's cancer trial. She has repeatedly asked me what she can do. . . today she sent Lan's this charm bracelet. It has a pic of Ben and Lan's on their wedding day and then a picture of both boys with charm letters spelling "life" in between the pictures. Lans LOVED it, it just gorgeous and she loved showing her babies pictures to the nurses. Slam dunk Tiffy!

We got the biopsy results for Lans this weekend. Her lymphoma has spread to her central nervous system- which essentially means the cancer is in her spinal fluid if I understand it right. Doctors say it is still treatable and are acting fast. She will finish her 10th radiation treatment on Wednesday. They dumped some chemo (forget the name) down her spinal column this last weekend. They won't do any further chemo until she is done with radiation. So probably next week they will start chemo again.. . and it is the hard stuff. After they are done with chemo they will start harvesting her cells to do a bone marrow transplant. I hope I am understanding all this right.

I spent the afternoon with her and being with her is always such a treat. Her pain (with help from meds) was pretty tolerable for a couple of days but was bothering her a good bit today. When I am with her I am always so confident she will be ok, her smile puts me at ease. She is just so brave and positive - truly an angel. She is pretty tiny right now.. weighing in at just 104 lbs. And lucky girl got a mild case of bells palsy - the perfect icing on a cancer crap-cake. ;) Soo extra prayers for our little worrier would be appreciated. I snapped a few pics today I'll post later.