Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Good News

For any of you who know us personally you know what all we have gone through in the last 3+ years with the illness and death of my wife Patty from the side effects of leukemia. In my previous blog entries I have talked about how sick Nancy - Patty's mom who lives with us has been. As a result of her feeling sick and low blood counts, Nancy had to have a bone marrow biopsy last Wednesday. The preliminary results are back and they do not show any evidence of cancer/leukemia. So that is good news. Now the hematologist needs to figure out what is taking place to cause her blood counts to be so low. All-in-all given the alternatives it is a piece of good news. One other quick note... for those of you who live in the Denver area, consider going into Bonfils and donating blood this week. I got a call yesterday from them asking me to come in again and donate platelets this week. That is very unusual because I just gave platelets last week. The issue is that there is a severe shortage of blood and blood products here in the Denver area. So please considering giving blood or platelets this week. Thanks and peace to all. - J.

5 comments:

Millie Schwab said...

Jerry: Thank u for updating on Nancy. I am so relieved, as I know you all are also. Now she needs to take care of herself with all recommendations given by the doctors....
Thanks,
Millie

Tina Sommers said...

Oh I am so happy about the update on Nancy, thanks so much for keeping us posted. I have never met any of you, but with all of your postings you have let us be part of your lives. You all are always in my thoughts and prayers!

ET-TA said...

Thank you for the heads up on low blood supply situation. I just donated whole blood to Bonfils for the 1st time on as part of the National Health Care Day of service and I will definitely donate again as soon as I get back from California!

Best to you, Zack and Nancy....

Jerry Kromer said...

ET-TA - Thanks for donating. It makes a huge difference and by your efforts you did save someone's life.

Enjoy California. Not to be partial, but hope your visiting the Bay area. In my humble opinion it is just a tab bit nicer than So Cal.

Have a great day!

ET-TA said...

Oh, I'm in San Francisco, am loving it and only have two more words to say about Northern Cali...Wine Country! :-)