Archive for July 30th, 2010

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital’s ABCs of Cancer

By now many of you have seen the sea of encouraging messages on my wall, you’ve seen the 7 inches of hair I cut off and you’ve seen the “such good news today” update from yesterday.

So here’s the deal. In an effort to save myself from explaining 1,000 times what is going on, I am going to update you all at once – via blog. For those super personal people who never tell the world anything, this might seem like I’m putting my business out there in a “needs attention kind of way”. That’s cool, I kind of feel that way too, but for me – it’s the only way I can do this and not cry every time someone asks “what’s wrong.”

Last Saturday my dad was diagnosed with Acute lymphocytic leukemia. It has not been the best week of my life to say the least, but everything has been going really well (as well as things with cancer can go). I’m not going to bore you with all the details, but it looks like we are going to be on an upward climb for the next few months (:) – upward is always better than downward). Read the rest of this entry »