Dina's Bone Marrow Biopsy and Birthday celebrations!!

I know you all are anxious to know the outcome of the bone marrow biopsy...just as we are, but the results will not be in until Friday the 22nd.  We are leaving on the 21st with Dina's family and heading down to Arizona for some sun!  She is to call the doctor on Friday and get the results.  I will post as soon as I know!

A good sign...Dina was inspired to clean out her garage...pretty much all by herself!  Pulled things out onto the driveway, threw things away into the truck, organized and made piles for a garage sale, so I would say that is all a GREAT SIGN.   And today she actually helped Lacey coach Lily's VB team down in the gym...another sign that things are looking good for her!

Last Friday and Saturday after having the biopsy, she was pretty sore and laid in bed...they took the marrow from the bone in her sacrum where the lymphoma was quite packed back in September...but Sunday she was feeling pretty good.

We had a gathering for all of our Feb/March birthdays in the family.  Dina starts us out on Feb 19, Scott follows on the 23rd, mine is the 5th of March, Jamie's is the 8th and Aaron is the 17th!  We just pick ONE day and do a big grown-up celebration.  And of course we were celebrating Dina's good news too! 

 

First, I must show you the picture of how Scott has been getting around the last couple of days.  He was doing absolutely NOTHING (maybe that is the problem!  tee hee) and he hurt his back!  He couldn't stand and could barely walk...I remembered we had the walker out in the garage, so here he is heading home from Dina's house after eating some dinner with us.  I knew I needed this picture for the blog...after all, he is only 63 NOT 93!!

And here is a group shot of all of us who could make the dinner.  Marty and Kim had Winterhawk tickets, so they were unable to come and Bernie and Diane had already made plans with friends...Do you see the birthday boy all decked out in green and wearing the leprechaun hat?  He was 40 on this day!  Kyle is the tall dude with glasses and right in front of him is his fiance, Elisa...Dina is wearing the BIG smile with the BIG O sweatshirt and Jamie and Jalen are hangin on her!  And doesn't my dad look great on the couch with the kiddos?  Scott's brother John is sitting on the edge of the couch and his wife Robin is standing to his side.  Caleb is between me and Robin...and Lacey is next to me.  Well, that is it...we had a great meal, good conversation and so happy to share the day with family!