Hello Everyone! Today is October 1, 2008. Hope everyone enjoys Olivia's new theme for her webpage - it's Childhood Cancer Awareness. Even though it's now October - PLEASE, PLEASE still wear your gold ribbons for public awareness. We need more people to ask 'What is your Gold Ribbon for?' So we can have the opportunity to tell them about all of these great kids who have had to bear the burden of something much to heavy for most adults, let alone a child. We need to find a cure, and now! Promoting awareness promotes funding, and funding will lead to a cure! I pray that a cure will be found in Olivia's lifetime so that someday she can tell her great-great-great grandchildren that one day a long, long time ago she had a brain tumor - but now it is GONE!!! Please we need your help.
Great news . . . Daddy is home now from Texas!!!! Yeah!!!! He is tired, but very happy to be back home with his girls - all three of us. Olivia is also doing very well - her pneumonia seems to be on the mend - thanks to lots of steroids (you love 'em because they work, but hate 'em because of the side effects). She stills wheezes and rattles a bit but it's much more manageable. She is really enjoying gymnastics - she loves to climb and run around, she'll look back at me and holler 'Run, run!' and pump her little arms just as hard and fast as she can. Funny!!! We found her a hippo costume for Halloween - too cute - now she can be just like her favorite buddy (stuffed animal) - Holly the Hippo!!!! Maddie decided she wants to wants to be a monkey this year - so we have also found her a monkey costume! They will definitely be adorable, I told Andy I would dress him up as a zoo keeper! Ha, Ha!!! Please keep a special little friend of ours in your prayers - her name is Erin (www.caringbridge.org/visit/erinroderick) she is 4 years old and has the same type of tumor as Olivia. Erin went in for a routine dental exam and ended up in the PICU - airway issues. Simple things like a visit to the dentist can be so dangerous and complicated for our children - we have learned to take nothing for granted. Please keep her and her parents in your prayers, as well as all of the children who are fighting cancer. We thank God everyday (sometimes moment by moment) for all of the blessings He has showered upon us with both Olivia and Maddie. Thanks so much for checking in on us - may God bless you richly.
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