Great News!!! :)

I am sorry for no update yesterday we had alot going on and a busy day. I had to fly home to Utah yesterday for work, I am self employed insurance broker and my busy season is starting up and I have meetings, seminars to do, clients I need to meet with for their annual review. It's hard to leave Eric but if I do not come home and get some of this done, we are already struggling to keep a float so things would be much worse.

Our friends in Texas Matt and Jodie Clark are with Eric and I appreciate them so much. They have made it so I can come home for a few weeks for work and know he is cared for and okay. Eric has to have a care giver 100% of the time with him. I always want to thank everyone one in the Baybrook Ward for all the rides to and from the hospital daily that everyone has done for Eric while I am gone. It is amazing the unconditional love everyone has! We are blessed to have such wonderful , caring and loving people that the Lord has placed in our lives. It reminds me of General Conference and how several talks were on serving others and treating others how you would treat the Lord and how we will be blessed and held accountable for this. You all will be truly blessed!

I titled this blog Great News and I am sure a few of you are thinking so far as you read this.."What is the great news?" Well my flight home to Utah is a 3 hour flight and prior to leaving a week ago right before they discharged Eric to outpatient he had a bone marrow biopsy. We kept asking daily for the results and they said they were not back yet they were finishing all of the blood smears and the pathologist still was reviewing the results. Well as soon as I landed to Utah off my flight I picked up my bags and was waiting for my ride at the airport. I was getting ready to call Eric to check on him at the hospital for his all day outpatient treatment to see how he was feeling, what his CBC blood counts were,etc.

I notice I had a voicemail, it was a message from Eric. He had called about an hour into my flight. My heart raced and was immediately worried that something was wrong for him to call during my flight as I had told him I would call him once I landed. The message I was about to hear was something I could not prepared for.... Here was Eric's exact words, crying so hard, sometimes barley being able to get all the words out-having to repeat himself due to crying so hard. This is what he said word for word: " Hey babe- it's Eric, how are you? I just wanted to call you I know you are on the airplane but we got some good news. They said they got the bone marrow biopsy results back, I am 100 % grafted and that it has a 99% success rate. SO it looks really good, I think we did the right thing- I think we finally got some good news... I love you and I just wanted to tell you that I think it's going to be fine and we are going to get through this! The Doctor's are really happy with it and just came in a few minutes ago with all the results and told me, they are really happy with it and said that this is really GOOD NEWS- they said to tell your Wife this is reason to CELEBRATE and they couldn't be more pleased with the results!" " Just give me a call when you get off the plane- I love you!"

I immediately starting crying and said a prayer right then thanking the Lord for his help and miracles, we are so grateful!!! I can not tel you how much those words meant to me, to us as a family and Eric! I know we still need to get rid of this pneumonia and fungus infection, get Eric better and back on the road to recovery, stronger and no illness, colds, flu's infections or Graft Vs. Host but this what news is what we have been praying for and needed to hear so desperately! I am so thankful to the Lord and for all our blessings and for everything that so many of you have done for us, we feel your love and support and know the power of prayer. Thank you so much!