Monday July 29th, 2013

Good morning everyone,

It was a good weekend for Jenn after receiving such bad news late last week.  We have remained positive and the entire team of Dr's here at Roswell have assured us that they will do everything possible for us to cure this cancer once and for all.

Jenn had a switch in treatments this weekend as well.  She was accepted into a clinical trial of a new drug that will attack the Leukemia and fix the FLT-3 genetic mutation as well.  Unfortunately they cannot administer the new drug until Jenn has been off of the last FLT-3 inhibitor they introduced just this past week.  So on Friday August 9th Jenn should be receiving this new treatment.  In the meantime, the Dr's have Jenn on a very low dosage chemo to keep the Leukemia counts in check so Jenn can wait out the two weeks before the new clinical drug is introduced. 

Jenn has been very strong through all of this, her strength increases daily and she even walked 16 laps yesterday around the hospital floor.  16 laps is a half mile and that is a lot of walking for someone who is still receiving chemo daily.  Jenn realizes that she has to build-up her strength in order to be accepted into the bone marrow wing, which will be the next move for us once they cure this genetic mutation and get the cancer into remission again.

I really appreciate all of the visitors that have been coming by to keep Jenn busy and to provide their love and support.  Even though sometimes Jenn is just too tired to see visitors, she does know that you were there and that provides Jenn with a lot of strength and encouragement.  Without you guys, I would have lost my mind sitting here, so thank you all so much!!!

Jenn has been eating better as well.  Lately Jenn has only been eating apple sauce and chicken broth.  But last night she had chicken noodle soup and this morning Jenn had two eggs and a pancake!!!  YOU GO GIRL!

Thanks for all the cards and well wishes, Jenn really loves getting mail and hearing about all the prayer cards she is on and knowing that everyone is pulling for her.  We love you all!

Much love from room 5409!!