Just a little update on what I forwarded to friends and family yesterday:
Everyone... Thank you so very much for your outrageous response to helping Marina with giving blood and platelet donations. I just arrived at the hospital and Marina was informed that the transfusions are only sticking for a day or two and at this point transfusions are not going to help her. She has elected not to receive any more transfusions along with receiving no more chemo. Her leukaemia has become so far advanced that these treatments are no more beneficial than they are harmful.
Again, I thank you from the bottom of my heart with your selfless acts of kindness and urge you to donate blood and platelets anyway, as there are countless patients who need them at Steeplechase as it is.
After this visit in the hospital (which is for fluids, antibiotics, potassium etc.) she will be sent home in the care of her loving family and friends, a visiting nurse and help from Somerset Medical Center. At this time I please ask you respect our time together as a family.
You can learn more about our day to day activities at my blog on lilpunkk12@blogger.com. I will try to keep it as up to date as possible. You may also contact me at any time at any one of these media portals or on my cell at 732.986.2686.
And again, thank you. You are all angels. Please spread your wings even further and help a stranger. Someone out there needs your help.
Dance, like no one's watching you... Dance, like the whole world's watching you... Dance, like I am watching you... Dance.
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Please forward, share, donate.
Hey friends and family... My mother (Marina) has been admitted to Somerset Medical Center again and needs blood and platelet donations immediately. Steeplechase Cancer Center actually ran out of platelets last week and had to retrieve them from another location. If anyone can make it to Somerset Medical Center ASAP to donate blood (whole) or platelets please make an appointment as noted below. There is a special procedure (noted below) to donate directly to Marina. If anyone feels odd going on their own, someone from my family or myself can assist you and sit with you if you would like. Please read the information below.
We need the names of everybody willing to donate even if they are not sure; because we have to fill out a form to make them Marina’s donors; after we get their names this is the procedure for family and friends who would like to donate:
1. Individuals must come in for initial testing if they wish to be a designated platelet donor. (We would take a small test tube and notify them of the results. If they have a strong platelet count, then we will be able to schedule a donation.) You can donate whole blood at this time that way you kill 2 birds with one stone. (Luz’s comment :)
2. Individuals who would like to give whole blood (no platelets) may do so by making an appointment at 908-685-2926. If you'd like, I can work with you to schedule a block of time where whole blood donors can come in together. (We have evenings available on Wednesdays and Thursdays). Whole blood donation takes an average of 35 minutes.
3. Platelets are collected on specific days and times- (typically Mondays -Thursdays) from morning until early afternoon to allow adequate time for laboratory testing. Once collected, we only have 72 hours to deliver the platelets for infusion. Your loved one's infusion schedule will determine the days in which we accept donor platelets. Platelet donation takes about 2 hours.
If anyone has questions about the process, please call our program at 908-685-2926.
Mondays- Tuesdays - 8 a.m.-6 p.m.
Wednesdays & Thursdays- 9 a.m.-7:30 p.m.
Fridays- 8 a.m.- 4:30 p.m.
We will do our best to accommodate your group for a date and time that works best.
Nicole Greco
Blood Donor Program Recruiter
Somerset Medical Center
110 Rehill Ave.
Somerville, NJ 08876
P: 908-685-2991 F: 908-231-6166
ngreco@somerset-healthcare.com
PLEASE PASS THIS INFORMATION ALONG TO YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY.
MY MOTHER DOES EVERYTHING, FOR EVERYONE ELSE, NO QUESTIONS ASKED. IT IS TIME TO PAY HER BACK :)
forgot to publish this - oops - So this is the new year...
Briefly, I just would like to say Happy New Year to those of you reading this. I hope your holidays were as magical as you hoped. Although I only have three followers I've learned that I have a larger audience than I anticipated. Thank you for listening this past year, and continuing to do so. Thank you for caring about M as much as I do.
She had a rough Christmas. The timing of the treatments made it so that she was extremely week from 12/25 - 12/31. She received 2 blood transfusions and a platelet transfusion on 12/31 and it's perked her up quite a bit. Unfortunately, she has endured significant weight loss. I personally think she needs to see a dietician. Hopefully her doctor feels the same way.
I don't have much to report. I fear writing anything that can be construed as untrue from this point on will only cause me to constantly correct myself time after time. It seems like mostly, it's a waiting game.
I have plenty of things to work on in the next week in regard to personal resolutions and starting over, growing up, and getting back to normal. This weekend will be the first weekend in over 2 years that I won't be officially employed at two places at one time. I am very excited about not having to work on Saturdays and Sundays. I am going to miss the money, absolutely, but I think it's a small price to pay to regain my sanity.
Let me work on some things, sort some details out, relax a little bit and next week I will come up with something more informative or interesting to blog about. Until then, I leave you with two songs - both about the new year. Enjoy.
She had a rough Christmas. The timing of the treatments made it so that she was extremely week from 12/25 - 12/31. She received 2 blood transfusions and a platelet transfusion on 12/31 and it's perked her up quite a bit. Unfortunately, she has endured significant weight loss. I personally think she needs to see a dietician. Hopefully her doctor feels the same way.
I don't have much to report. I fear writing anything that can be construed as untrue from this point on will only cause me to constantly correct myself time after time. It seems like mostly, it's a waiting game.
I have plenty of things to work on in the next week in regard to personal resolutions and starting over, growing up, and getting back to normal. This weekend will be the first weekend in over 2 years that I won't be officially employed at two places at one time. I am very excited about not having to work on Saturdays and Sundays. I am going to miss the money, absolutely, but I think it's a small price to pay to regain my sanity.
Let me work on some things, sort some details out, relax a little bit and next week I will come up with something more informative or interesting to blog about. Until then, I leave you with two songs - both about the new year. Enjoy.
"The New Year"
So this is the new year.
And I don't feel any different.
The clanking of crystal
Explosions off in the distance (in the distance).
So this is the new year
And I have no resolutions
For self assigned penance
For problems with easy solutions
So everybody put your best suit or dress on
Let's make believe that we are wealthy for just this once
Lighting firecrackers off on the front lawn
As thirty dialogs bleed into one
I wish the world was flat like the old days
Then I could travel just by folding a map
No more airplanes, or speed trains, or freeways
There'd be no distance that could hold us back.
:::Death Cab for Cutie:::
"The New Year"
I'm sick of cleaning up the mess you left behind
What a way to start the new year
On my hands and knees cleaning up the dirt and grime
What a way to start the new year
I'm sick of holding both ends of the tightrope
Cause when you fall all that's left is old high hopes for me
Stretched thin to the end trying to keep it all in
What a way to start the new year
Won't you say that it's alright?
Won't you tell me it's okay?
Because there's 364 more days
I might be smiling but you'll never even hear me say
That I like it in the shadows
Counting down to zero just to start again
Oh what a way to start the new year
Don't get me wrong, I hate this holiday
What a way to start the new year
On my hands and knees, choosing what I have to say
What a way to start the new year
I never realized it could mean so much
Just to go to bed later when we have to get up all the same,
And we scream and clap for the end of what was and what we've become
Won't you say that it's alright?
Won't you tell me it's okay?
Because we have 364 more days
I might be smiling but you'll never even hear me say
That I like it in the shadows
Counting down to zero just to start again
Oh what a way to start the new year
Well was it really that bad?
And could it be better?
Well, I don't know, but with you I still have hope
That this could be my year
364 more days, 1 million chances left to find you and to see your face
Making light out of the shadows, finally get to zero
Maybe we'll both say
364 more days, 1 million chances left to find you and to see your face
Making light out of the shadows, finally get to zero
Maybe we'll both say
What a way to start the new year
:::Parachute:::
Back in Somerset
M was admitted into Somerset Medical Center yesterday. Please pass this information along to your friends and family, from my family. Thank you.
Hey friends and family... My mother (Marina) has been admitted to Somerset Medical Center again and needs blood and platelet donations immediately. Steeplechase Cancer Center actually ran out of platelets last week and had to retrieve them from another location. If anyone can make it to Somerset Medical Center ASAP to donate blood (whole) or platelets please make an appointment as noted below. There is a special procedure (noted below) to donate directly to Marina. If anyone feels odd going on their own, someone from my family or myself can assist you and sit with you if you would like. Please read the information below.
We need the names of everybody willing to donate even if they are not sure; because we have to fill out a form to make them Marina’s donors; after we get their names this is the procedure for family and friends who would like to donate:
1. Individuals must come in for initial testing if they wish to be a designated platelet donor. (We would take a small test tube and notify them of the results. If they have a strong platelet count, then we will be able to schedule a donation.) You can donate whole blood at this time that way you kill 2 birds with one stone. (Luz’s comment :)
2. Individuals who would like to give whole blood (no platelets) may do so by making an appointment at 908-685-2926. If you'd like, I can work with you to schedule a block of time where whole blood donors can come in together. (We have evenings available on Wednesdays and Thursdays). Whole blood donation takes an average of 35 minutes.
3. Platelets are collected on specific days and times- (typically Mondays -Thursdays) from morning until early afternoon to allow adequate time for laboratory testing. Once collected, we only have 72 hours to deliver the platelets for infusion. Your loved one's infusion schedule will determine the days in which we accept donor platelets. Platelet donation takes about 2 hours.
If anyone has questions about the process, please call our program at 908-685-2926.
Mondays- Tuesdays - 8 a.m.-6 p.m.
Wednesdays & Thursdays- 9 a.m.-7:30 p.m.
Fridays- 8 a.m.- 4:30 p.m.
We will do our best to accommodate your group for a date and time that works best.
Nicole Greco
Blood Donor Program Recruiter
Somerset Medical Center
110 Rehill Ave.
Somerville, NJ 08876
P: 908-685-2991 F: 908-231-6166
ngreco@somerset-healthcare.com
PLEASE PASS THIS INFORMATION ALONG TO YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY.
MY MOTHER DOES EVERYTHING, FOR EVERYONE ELSE, NO QUESTIONS ASKED. IT IS TIME TO PAY HER BACK :)
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