Home, finally

Nearly 24 hours after getting to the airport in Philly, Christi and I walked in the door to our home about an hour ago and of course Shayla just walked in too and discovered her hamster is dead. Weather in Michigan and Ohio cancelled many flights yesterday/last night and we spent many hours hanging out on airport floors and sitting all buckled up on runways which resembled parking lots.

I thank God that Christi is feeling well and was a tremendous sport about it all! She took everything in stride and made me so very, very proud to be her mother! Right now I'm exhausted, but I need to pack the girls up and run them to Girl Scout Camp then I'm off to class myself.

Thankfully, her disease showed a subtle overall reduction; however, her blood counts are too low to now qualify for any open clinical trials. We'll do what Dr. Maris suggested, "Take her home and enjoy her and her time off from treatment for a few weeks." And we'll also pray like crazy her blood counts rise and a slot opens up in a future study. More later....(and pictures of course)