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Thursday,
March 7, 2008
Hey Everyone,
I know many of you are on Shelsi and Eric's
Blog list so you may have already read her latest entry, but for
those of you who didn't, here's the latest.
She saw her regular doctor, Dr. Lill,
for the first time in almost 2 months this week. He's been gone,
so she's been seeing his partner. When she went in for her appt
on Wednesday she found out that he also was diagnosed with cancer.
Unbelievable how rampant cancer is! We are adding him to our prayers.
On Thursday, March 13, the SCT (Stem Cell
Transplant) process begins. It's going to be an intense few weeks,
and the doctor has advised us Shelsi will be sicker than she's
ever been, but it's necessary to build her a new immune system.
We have great faith that she will pull through it all, but it's
not going to be fun for her. So as much funny and inspirational
material as you can come up with between now and then would be
appreciated so she has a lot of it stored in her memory banks
ahead of time to draw from :-)
If all goes as planned she will have her
own stem cells drawn beginning March 17. They will then be reintroduced
back into her body on March 31 after 7 days of high dose chemo
to completely wipe out her immune system. And then the RECOVERY
phase of the SCT begins on April 1. At that point it's just a
waiting game to see how quickly her body starts replicating the
cells.
So in your thoughts and prayers, please
focus on the greatest power and most loving and healing comfort
to be poured out upon her during this time.
Once we get to the other side of this
battle we're going to have one HUGE celebration!
Much love and gratitude.
Sheri
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