Quick Update

Hi All, It seems to have taken me longer than years past to get back into the post holiday swing of things! We had an amazing Christmas having all of my family at our house. The girls were so much fun Christmas morning and needless to say, Santa was extra good to them! Quick update on our friend's baby girl, Brittany, who has cancer. She completed round 2 of chemo and her cancer marker which was originally over 200,000 was down to 1,800!!!!!! That is remarkable. The tumor shrunk 40% but the surgeons in TX who will perform the resection thought it would be an easier recovery if they did one more round of chemo to hopefully shrink it a bit more. Surgery is scheduled for January 28th (I think). Please pray for the entire family!!!! They will have to be in TX for a month and leave their older two daughters back in Tampa. Brooke & Brianna will fly to TX a few times to see Brittany, mom and dad but this still has to be incredibly hard on all of them. The recovery will be pretty hard on baby Brittany too since they will take a big chunk of her liver. All in all, I think they are happy to be going over the final hump of this disease and be on the road to recovery. All prayers are appreciated and her response to these drugs just show the power of prayer really works! Happy New year to everyone! Hopefully 2013 will be wonderful for everyone!