Here we are

Posted by Sammy on Jun 8th, 2009 | 2 comments

The day before we leave for DC for Gary’s first round of chemo. It’s been hard to stay focused today just because I know what tomorrow means. I know that once tomorrow comes we’ll be all focused on Gary’s health. No need to even think about the worries of being a parent, it’ll all be about Gary. I know it’ll be hard to walk out that front door to our home knowing that we have to leave our precious Mikey behind but he’ll be in good hands with Grandma Zullo. It’ll be hard getting on that plane knowing where its taking us. And more importantly it’ll be hard arriving at NIH Wednesday morning to really begin this journey.

Let the “games” begin

Posted by Sammy on May 20th, 2009 | no comments

The day always goes by super slow when you are waiting for something to happen. To me nothing sucks more than waiting for a phone call. Maybe its because I kinda don’t have control of the situation so it REALLY irritates me but I’ve always been like this. So today we were waiting for Gary to receive a call from one of the ladies up at the NIH regarding scheduling his treatments. We are both ready to get this process started, the sooner he starts the sooner its over.

So most of the day was just flying by until finally the phone rang. He finally called me to fill me in on all of the details. Basically he has a choice of two weeks to start. It’ll either be the week of June 8th or the 15th. For the first treatment he’ll have to be up there for a full week. Before they even start the treatment part of it all they need to do a spinal tap and an apheresis (to take out his white blood cells and put his blood back in). Of course nothing about any bit of that trip sounds like fun, but its not supposed to be. If it was then cancer would be the cool thing to have.

So yeah we’ll be heading back to DC within the next 3-4 weeks. Summer 2009 will forever be the summer Gary gets chemo. Pretty memorable huh?