HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!!!
We are going to our friend Dominique's house later today for dinner and some fun. Dominique and her family are from New Orleans and were brought to Houston after Katrina. Dominigue we met at the Proton Center, she is also fighting a tumor, just a different kind than Matthew had. Dominique is 20 years old and has already been through so much in her short life, but she is looking great, we took her to dinner recently and she has recovered well since we last saw her. We are excited to see her again.
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We already have a few families that may need the condo in July right after we leave; for a few weeks, and another family in August, who may need it for three months. We are praying that we can be out of here next week. Eric is working hard this weekend to get all the little things done around the house.
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Update on Matthew's chemo protocol. The doctor may decide to extend his chemo until December (12 cycles) if his blood counts continue to do well. I was hoping for him to be done in September, but we are going to go with what ever the doctor recommends. The goal of the chemo is to cause cell suicide aka death (bad cell), which happens over an extended time, not instantly, so I think she is just being conservative, which I appreciate. We will keep you updated on this front.
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MRI in less than four days, Yikes. This is always a stressful time, we are trying hard not to think about it. I might be able to have results Tuesday as we meet with the neurologist late in the day, I am sure the scans will have been read by then, they are quick at MD Anderson. Matthew's oncologist appointment isn't until Thursday.
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Have a great holiday!
Declaration of Independence (in part)
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. —Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain [George III] is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
