My Journal

November 16, 2010 in Uncategorized with 12 Comments Today, Gray began his bone marrow harvest. It’s rough. Each day, Grayson has to be transported to the Oklahoma Blood Institute by ambulance, which he was kind of freaked out by today, and then he...

November 16, 2010 in Uncategorized with 6 Comments Yesterday we were asked to have Grayson at the hospital by 6:30AM to be admitted for surgery at 9AM. We arrived at 6:30 but we are quickly learning about “hospital time” which is nothing like...

November 13, 2010 in Uncategorized with 4 Comments When we had Gray’s blood counts checked on Tuesday they were high! So, he was  approved to attend Youth Pastor’s Retreat with us this weekend at Turner Falls! We were so excited to get out of...

November 30, 2010 in Uncategorized with 7 Comments Gray completed his third round of chemo just over a week ago. As you know, this round was inpatient because the chemo was a combination of medicines and stronger then any previous round. We were...

November 9, 2010 in Uncategorized with 6 Comments Whew! Sorry for the delay in updates. It’s been a busy weekend! Between doctors appointments, our oldest son Seth’s catch up homework (from missing so much during Gray’s hopsital stay), a 5th grade...

November 4, 2010 in Uncategorized with 26 Comments Sorry to keep you all waiting in suspense but we have the results from Grayson’s first post chemo bone scan. We went in early Wednesday morning. When we arrived the nurse who checked us in had...

November 2, 2010 in Uncategorized with 3 Comments Since Gray’s cancer diagnosis, our local high school has reached out to 0ur family in ways that we could have never imagined. A few weeks ago they held a car wash in Gray’s honor and raised funds...

Happy Halloween!! This was our first “holiday” since Gray’s diagnosis and we had to celebrate a bit differently then we normally would. There are some things we had to change that we never would have thought about before and some things that pretty obviously had to be...

Whew! We made it! Today was Grayson’s last day of outpatient chemo for this round. The week was exhausting. Beyond exhausting really. There’s not even a word to describe it. Honestly, I think Gray has handled it all better and feels better then any of us! Ironic. He’s...