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Friday,
Jan 18, 2008
Hi Everyone,
I've been waiting for something new to
report before I wrote another update, but then the very reasons
I haven't written became newsworthy. So here's the latest. Since
radiation keeps working for two weeks after the final dose, Shelsi
was supposed to get an MRI 2 weeks after her last radiation treatment,
which was Friday, January 11. They wanted the MRI scan to be done
around next Friday, January 25. Her doctor wrote the order for
it 6 weeks ago so it would be approved and could be done at the
proper time following radiation to determine if Shel is finally
in remission and a good candidate for a stem cell transplant.
Somehow the order never made it to the
right person, so the request for the MRI (which usually takes
6 weeks for approval) never made it where it was supposed to go.
After the cancer center learned the MRI had never been ordered,
they sent it out overnight marked "URGENT". I called
ever day after that inquiring on the status, and every day I was
told, "we never received the order". Today I learned
that the overnight package has been sitting at the carriers warehouse
since January 10th. Why is it that sometimes when one thing goes
wrong it creates a snowball affect and mistakes keep happening?
That has always been a mystery to me!
With luck, the request for the MRI will
be delivered where it needs to be by next Tuesday, (since Monday
is a holiday), and if we can get letters from both DHL and Cedars
admitting to their errors , maybe the order will be pushed through
and approved in an urgent fashion and the MRI can be done on time.
Once the MRI is done the doctors will
have enough information to proceed with the next step of harvesting
Shel's stem cells, purifying and freezing them, and then proceed
to wipe out her immune system with chemotherapy in order to present
the new cleaner, purer stem cells back into her in order to create
a whole new cancer free immune system.
She has been feeling the fatigue effects
of radiation, but has kept her amazing positive attitude and keeps
her mind busy by playing Guitar Hero!=O) She's getting pretty
good at it too.
Please pray the MRI gets approved quickly,
and that it shows no more tumor so the Stem Cell Transplant process
can begin immediately.
Much Love and Gratitude.
Sheri
Shel and Eric on Thanksgiving 2007
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