Happy Holidays!

Christmas was a great day for all of us. We spent Christmas Eve with Grandma Thompson and family and then headed to Clarkston to spend Christmas day with Grammy and Opa. The ride to Clarkston took a little longer than usual due to extremely icy roads. But we arrived safe and sound and in time to get to bed before Santa arrived. We concluded our Christmas holiday with a Christmas party at Grandma and Grandpa Betz's.

One of Greta's favorite gifts was a play hair dryer that actually blew cool air. Greta dried her head and then came around and dried every ones hair. Gavin got his prized polar express electric train that he'd been hoping for.

We got a call on Friday from the nurse that Greta's head CT was further reviewed and determined that the thickening of her sinuses was Sinusitis. So she started another antibiotic to clear up that today. This means that her testing for Monday will be pushed back until Tuesday. We don't know if this will push back her anticipated stem cell transplant at all.

Greta's test on Tuesday will be all day in clinic and will involve giving her small doses of the chemo that she will get in preparation for the transplant. Her blood will be drawn at various intervals to get a baseline for how she reacts/responds to this chemo drug.

It's been great having this time at home together, especially since Greta is able to go out and is feeling well right now. But we are very anxious to begin the next part of her treatment.

We again appreciate all the prayers. We hope everyone had as wonderful a holiday as we did and have a safe and happy 2009!

With love,
The Betz Family