Today had to be the best Briley has felt since being diagnosed. She woke up in a good mood and has played all day. She even took a bath without crying! Her and Bryson seem like their old selves again. They play together and then they fight! She is still weak and cannot stand up by herself if she is sitting on the floor. But it has been by far a great day! Plus I think being at home as made a big difference.
It will be hard going back to Ft. Worth tomorrow night. She now knows that going to Ft. Worth is not a good thing. Hopefully we will be able to come back home after the spinal tap on Wed. She is also taking chemo at home every day, but considering, it should be a easy month. Thank you for your prayers and support!
Monday, March 7, 2011
We are home & wonderful benefit!
I apologize for not updating more. It's been a whirlwind of a time the past 2 or 3 days. We are finally living at home now!!! The carpets have been taking out and the laminate floors put back in. The doctor advised that we should do this and we hope that it will cut back on sickness and allergies. The kids are very excited to be home! After laying down for bed Sat. night, I think Bryson figured out that he would be staying & sleeping at home now and he kept saying, "Bubba home, Bubba home"!!! It's been good for Briley also. She has not cried near as much and has been very active.
Thanks to the help of a few friends, we moved nearly everything back into the house on Saturday before the benefit. Briley was determined to go to the benefit so we figured we would take her early figuring there wasn't many people there yet. Boy did we figure wrong! We walked in and we couldn't believe how many people were there! Briley's ANC counts were up very high, which is good, so we let her stay for a little while. Then Alicia and I started getting nervous about her catching a "bug" so we took her home. Anyway, we couldn't have been more pleased with the benefit. The food was great and there was a ton of cool auction items. A lot of people put in hard work, money, and time to make it a big success.
There are way to many people to thank for this and I don't know how to thank everyone, but THANK YOU! A special thanks to the SVFD for cooking and working, my EMS co-workers for helping out were they could, Seymour Hospital for helping organizing and spreading the word, Alicia's co-workers for running the auction, Bubba & Cynthia Stout for going on TV to promote the benefit and getting donated food and cooking, Joey Sturgeon for cooking, Danny Hrncirik for cooking, Lance, Jeremy, Bailey, Chris Clerihew and the band, and to everyone to donated the wonderful auction items. We would also like to thank everyone that came out and ate! I know I missed some folks, I'm sorry, but you know who you are and we appreciate you also. So many people have done extraordinary things for Briley that has been such a blessing. We are very blessed to live in Seymour, TX. THANK YOU!!!
Thanks to the help of a few friends, we moved nearly everything back into the house on Saturday before the benefit. Briley was determined to go to the benefit so we figured we would take her early figuring there wasn't many people there yet. Boy did we figure wrong! We walked in and we couldn't believe how many people were there! Briley's ANC counts were up very high, which is good, so we let her stay for a little while. Then Alicia and I started getting nervous about her catching a "bug" so we took her home. Anyway, we couldn't have been more pleased with the benefit. The food was great and there was a ton of cool auction items. A lot of people put in hard work, money, and time to make it a big success.
There are way to many people to thank for this and I don't know how to thank everyone, but THANK YOU! A special thanks to the SVFD for cooking and working, my EMS co-workers for helping out were they could, Seymour Hospital for helping organizing and spreading the word, Alicia's co-workers for running the auction, Bubba & Cynthia Stout for going on TV to promote the benefit and getting donated food and cooking, Joey Sturgeon for cooking, Danny Hrncirik for cooking, Lance, Jeremy, Bailey, Chris Clerihew and the band, and to everyone to donated the wonderful auction items. We would also like to thank everyone that came out and ate! I know I missed some folks, I'm sorry, but you know who you are and we appreciate you also. So many people have done extraordinary things for Briley that has been such a blessing. We are very blessed to live in Seymour, TX. THANK YOU!!!
Friday, March 4, 2011
Briley Hostas Benefit & Auction
Briley Hostas Benefit Dinner & Silent Auction
Saturday, March 5th
Cliff Styles Pavilion
1205 Archer Road
Seymour, Texas
4:00-7:00 p.m.
Entertainment:
Under the Influence
Chris Clerihew & the Westcoast Turnarounds
Meal:
hamburgers, beans, potato salad, drink & dessert
$10/plate, kids under 10 $5/plate.
Meal will be served from 5-6:30p.m.
Take-out available.
Auction:
4-6:30p.m.
All auctioned items distributed @ 7p.m.
Restaurant gift certificates (Smokey Bros, Wildcatter, Rock Inn Café), cakes, home accessories, clothes, luggage, TEXAS RANGER tickets, lots of accessories for girls, lots of jewelry, handmade blanket, Panther football helmets, lots of crosses, Red Wing boots, Ariat bag, $100 Shell gift card, radios, books, tools, furniture, candles, coins, frames, Ghd flatiron, massage gift certificate, color-cut-style gift certificate, hair products, skin products, PRIDE lift chair, CabCam Surveillance Cam, Lots of FISHING SUPPLIES: 2,000 plastic bass baits, 100 crank baits, 19 combo reel/rods, 10 rods, 2 reels, polarized sun glasses, X135 Lorance Sonar fish finder, $100 Rockwall Marine gift certificates, $150 Ford Store Bob & Blake Utter Ford gift certificate, ½ day guide trips on Lake Ray Hubbard & Lake O.H. Ivey, collector model car/truck, knives, hunting/camping items, toys, Echo Weedeater, Echo handblower, Echo chainsaw, John Deere Push Lawnmower. There is TOO much to list, but there is something for everyone!
Online Auction:
An online auction has been set-up for out-of-towners.
Auction ID: brileyhostasauction
Auction Password: briley
All proceeds will go to the Hostas Family to help cover expenses!
Thursday, March 3, 2011
We are back home, sort of
Briley did very well over night and was awakened by a breathing treatment. She does not like breathing treatments, especially when they wake her from a dead sleep. Her O2 sats did well overnight and into this morning. We were discharged around 10:30am. Alicia left early to drive back to Seymour for class pictures with her students and to interview with Channel 3 KFDX! Mean while, dad drove down to Ft. Worth to pick me & Briley up. She had a great day. She played a lot at the hospital. Once we got over to Nana's house, Briley and Bryson played like never before. They were so good together!
We will have to go back to Ft. Worth for Briley's next spinal tap and chemo next Wed. We hope that Briley can avoid sickness until then. She is so fragile right now it's almost scary being home.
We appreciate KFDX for the story on the news today and kuddos to the kiddos at the elementary school for the great support shown today! Thanks! I know today was a day that Alicia will not forget!
We will have to go back to Ft. Worth for Briley's next spinal tap and chemo next Wed. We hope that Briley can avoid sickness until then. She is so fragile right now it's almost scary being home.
We appreciate KFDX for the story on the news today and kuddos to the kiddos at the elementary school for the great support shown today! Thanks! I know today was a day that Alicia will not forget!
Update Wednesday 3/2
I'm am running a day behind on updating, so we'll do two updates today. Yesterday Briley had a spinal tap with chemo injection and also a couple other chemo treatments. After the procedure, we stayed in recovery a little longer than usual since her O2 was low. She had a couple of breathing treatments until her O's came up enough to go back to the room. She made it through the procedure just fine and had a great day. After getting back to the room, she got out of bed and played basically all day. She also got a good night's rest and we are waiting to be discharged today! The guys working hard putting floors in the house should be done on Friday, but Briley will have to stay in Munday until Sunday at the earliest to give the dust in the house time to settle. Plus will have to move all the furniture back in this weekend. We are really looking forward to all 4 of us being together at home again. It has been a long hard month and a half so far and we will keep moving forward until she wins this battle! We are ready to see everyone on Saturday!
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Great Day!
Briley's lumbar puncture and chemo treatment has been resceduled for tomorrow morning at 8:00. If all goes well, then we will be discharged sometime on Thursday. Please pray for her tomorrow.
Briley is becoming her old self again! She has been feeling great, laughing, talking, and walking! She has played with her crafts most of the day and has actually wanted to get down and walk. This has been such a blessing for us.
Her O2 sat is getting better and better. She has had 3 breathing treatments today and she is now maintaining at 96-97%. Her fever is gone and her heart rate has decreased slightly.
We got a call earlier from Jim "Bubba" Stout saying that him and Cynthia will be on the Channel 3 news in the morning sometime between 6 and 7 to promote the benefit. Also he said the news crew will make a visit to the Elementary School on Thursday to do interviews. Stay tuned! We thank Bubba, Cynthia, and everyone else that have put in so much of their own time and hard work for Briley. Thank you very much!
Briley is becoming her old self again! She has been feeling great, laughing, talking, and walking! She has played with her crafts most of the day and has actually wanted to get down and walk. This has been such a blessing for us.
Her O2 sat is getting better and better. She has had 3 breathing treatments today and she is now maintaining at 96-97%. Her fever is gone and her heart rate has decreased slightly.
We got a call earlier from Jim "Bubba" Stout saying that him and Cynthia will be on the Channel 3 news in the morning sometime between 6 and 7 to promote the benefit. Also he said the news crew will make a visit to the Elementary School on Thursday to do interviews. Stay tuned! We thank Bubba, Cynthia, and everyone else that have put in so much of their own time and hard work for Briley. Thank you very much!
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