Letter from 3 years ago
I thought I'd upload the letter from 3 years ago here since I've never posted it anywhere before. Here it is:
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Hello Friends, Staff, & Relatives
You may have heard by now but if not I’m sorry to tell you in a mass email.
Thursday evening, the 30th of December I think, my first daughter was diagnosed with Pre-B ALL Cancer. ALL stands for Acute Lymphomatic Leukemia. About 3000 kids get it a year and she got picked this year to be one of the 3000. We found out after she caught what we now know was the Flu while we were on vacation in California for Christmas. We made it home took her in to the doctor and within a couple hours were driving down to Presbyterian St. Lukes Pediatric Oncology Center.
Since that night she has successfully kicked the Flu bug, my wife and I got it too, and is doing much better. She will start Chemo treatment on Monday, probably as you are reading this, to kill off all of her white blood cells, since Leukemia is a cancer of the blood. She will continue this treatment for approximately 2 and ½ years and if she is one of the 80% then she will be cured.
So far she has under gone several blood transfusions, 1 surgery, a pretty cool “Borg” (star trek reference) looking implant in her chest to give her medicine through called a “Broviac” Intra Venial Catheter , a bone marrow aspirate/biopsy, a spinal tap and 1 course of Chemo in her spinal fluid.
Sooo…. Lots of info, can’t believe that I can describe it so well in just a few sentences.
Tiffany are holding up pretty good and just clinging to God, falling into His arms and trying to keep Jesus’s light as our center in this time of darkness. It’s really just too big to worry or control any of it. We feel at peace even when we are crying so thank you for so many of you that have been praying for us. It really is a powerful thing and very comforting to that so many people are praying for our little girl.
Well lots to do, lot of sleep to catch up on, please keep praying for us all.
If you want more detailed information, have something you want to tell us, can offer us help in any way or just want to see how things are going we have set up a “blog”… Ok you unhip, non-techno savvy friends of mine it is a “web-log” (say it fast a few times and you start saying blog too) a page that we can post info on and you all can be part of this journey with us by posting comments back if you want, check it out. This is how we will be communicating primarily from now on so for the most up-to-date info go to the link below.
Here is the URL address just put it in the address bar in your browser
abbyupdate.blogspot.com
Thanks to everyone again for your support in this.
With love and hope,
Mark, Tiffany, Abigail, & Anna Schreiber
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Hello Friends, Staff, & Relatives
You may have heard by now but if not I’m sorry to tell you in a mass email.
Thursday evening, the 30th of December I think, my first daughter was diagnosed with Pre-B ALL Cancer. ALL stands for Acute Lymphomatic Leukemia. About 3000 kids get it a year and she got picked this year to be one of the 3000. We found out after she caught what we now know was the Flu while we were on vacation in California for Christmas. We made it home took her in to the doctor and within a couple hours were driving down to Presbyterian St. Lukes Pediatric Oncology Center.
Since that night she has successfully kicked the Flu bug, my wife and I got it too, and is doing much better. She will start Chemo treatment on Monday, probably as you are reading this, to kill off all of her white blood cells, since Leukemia is a cancer of the blood. She will continue this treatment for approximately 2 and ½ years and if she is one of the 80% then she will be cured.
So far she has under gone several blood transfusions, 1 surgery, a pretty cool “Borg” (star trek reference) looking implant in her chest to give her medicine through called a “Broviac” Intra Venial Catheter , a bone marrow aspirate/biopsy, a spinal tap and 1 course of Chemo in her spinal fluid.
Sooo…. Lots of info, can’t believe that I can describe it so well in just a few sentences.
Tiffany are holding up pretty good and just clinging to God, falling into His arms and trying to keep Jesus’s light as our center in this time of darkness. It’s really just too big to worry or control any of it. We feel at peace even when we are crying so thank you for so many of you that have been praying for us. It really is a powerful thing and very comforting to that so many people are praying for our little girl.
Well lots to do, lot of sleep to catch up on, please keep praying for us all.
If you want more detailed information, have something you want to tell us, can offer us help in any way or just want to see how things are going we have set up a “blog”… Ok you unhip, non-techno savvy friends of mine it is a “web-log” (say it fast a few times and you start saying blog too) a page that we can post info on and you all can be part of this journey with us by posting comments back if you want, check it out. This is how we will be communicating primarily from now on so for the most up-to-date info go to the link below.
Here is the URL address just put it in the address bar in your browser
abbyupdate.blogspot.com
Thanks to everyone again for your support in this.
With love and hope,
Mark, Tiffany, Abigail, & Anna Schreiber
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