Sign Up For Meals

Hello Julie's Friends! - Laura here
A huge thanks for all of you willing and wanting to make meals for Julie and family. I had one signed up for next Tuesday, but now she cannot do it so if someone doesn't mind taking Tuesday, (October 2) that would be great!

I want all of you to know that the support for Julie has been wonderfully overwhelming even for me as I am getting many calls and inquiries for those of you wanting to make meals and or help in any way you can. I want to let all of you know that I am doing my best to get all of you in, but the list is pretty huge - goes to show what an awesome person Julie is and her list of friends is long. God bless all of you for your help and I promise I will do my best to let you show her your love thru the meals as best I can.

Here are the other dates available: Please pop me an email as to what might work for you - if you have more than one date that you can do, please let me know - as I have many people who would like to cook and I would like to get everyone in.

Dates are: October 2

October 2

October 22

October 23

October 25

October 26

November 12

November 13

November 15

November 16

If you have time in the weeks in between, let me know and I'll plug a few of you in - Julie will just have to deal with more meals than asked :) - I think she can handle it. Then only day I'm sure they are taken care of is Wednesday nights as church provides the meal.

Thank you - Thank you - Thank you for all your help.
Oh yes - and for all of you participating the the RACE FOR THE CURE this weekend - good luck, have fun and God Bless!!
My email is: lauradiekevers@sbcglobal.net
Thanks!!

I LOVE MY GOOD WEEK!!!! I thought I should update everyone on my last treatment because originally I thought it was going well but things drastically changed!!! I woke up Thursday, Sept. 15 and had major aches in my legs and feet. I could hardly walk. I layed around all day and then Fri. still felt miserable so I decided to call the Dr. I spoke with a nurse and explained my symptoms and unfortunately these are the side effects. I also found out that I had a yeast infection in my mouth and throat which was extremely painful. They gave me something for that but it didn't do much good so Mon. my nurse gave me something else for it. After a few days that started to work. Eating during this time was extremely painful because my throat felt like it was closing up. Also, my hands and feet had burns all over them. Warm water increases the burning so showering was a little challenging. I am not looking hilarious showering with water shoes and rubber gloves. NOT ENJOYABLE!!! The burns this week don't hurt but my hands look terrible because they are majorly peeling. Thanks to my parents family and friends I made it through a very rough time. Please pray for me next week as it time to start all over again. Only 3 more!!! Love, Julie

When Julie was first diagnosed with breast cancer one of the things we talked about was that it would be nice if we could do the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure together as a family. I don't think Julie will be able to participate this year, considering how bad the chemo has been, but I think Anna and I are still hoping to do it. Anna VanBragt, Jennifer Ursum and some other friends are also planning on doing it. If you are considering participating in the Race for the Cure or would like more information, please contact Anna VanBragt at 534-1944 or at Vanbragt@tds.net, or go to http://www.komengr.org. There will be special t-shirts available for Julie's friends. The money raised from the race will go to breast cancer research, and the goal this year is to raise $500,000.

Thanks again for all of your prayers and support,
Ron

Hi Everyone - I had my 7th round of chemo Monday and I'm happy to report that I feel really good. I am on a new drug for the next 4 rounds and so far I really like this one. I hope that the side effects never happen. I dare to dream!!!!!! Monday at chemo was another long day and my friend Laura came with me. She loves to rubber stamp so we were going to make cards the entire time. Well, it turned out that Laura made cards and I slept. I was given an extremely large doze of Benedryl to combat any reaction I might get with this new drug. The Benedryl knocked me out! I was slurrying my words and probably even drooling. Poor Laura she was probably extremely bored. What a great friend. My blood work showed that the white blood cell had improved so I convinced my Dr. to let my go this round with out the dreaded Neulasta injection. We pray the white blood cells stay in the decent range. Now the red blood cells were really low but they gave me an injection to improve those so in a few weeks I hopefully should have a little more energy. Well take care everyone and I hope everything is going well with you. Keep praying!! Love, Julie

I owe everyone an apology because I haven't written to tell you what happened last chemo treatment. SORRY!!! It was actually really good news, Dr. Campbell couldn't feel any of the tumors which means they have shrunk a lot!!!!! YEAH - Prayer works!!! I am going to start with a different chemo drug Sept. 10 and then I will have treatments every 3 weeks apart. I'm hoping this means that I will get 2 good weeks. I am under the impression that this drug will be gentler on my body than the other one. The side effects for this one are more fingernail and toenail brittleness and more mouth sores. The best news is that I probably won't have to have the shot on Tuesday that makes me so miserable. Good news!! The only thing of concern is that I got my blood tested yesterday and they called me yesterday to tell me that my white blood cells were really low so I needed to be very careful and watch out for infection. I don't think that I will go to Celebration on the Grand anymore. Poor Ron - he was really looking forward to it but I'm to chicken around all the people. Well keep praying and I will try to write soon. Love, Julie