Fight Like A Girl.

This is week 8 of Layla's treatment. She is still getting a  minimum chemo dose of 2.5% (25% of the dosage we started at) since her blood work shows low count of red and white cells. Her four days of treatment consist of Vitamin C and Taurolidine infusion along with the chemo and Hyperbaric Oxygen therapy. Highlights of the Week Layla got a nice surprise visit from her friend Amy. Amy flew in Thursday night (red eye flight from Long Beach). Layla woke up Friday morning and found Amy in the kitchen. AAAH!!! Layla, Amy and Nina hung out together. They went to a comedy show in a coffee shop on Saturday and to a Cat Cafe on Sunday where you hang out with cats in need of adoption. This serves also as a way to raise funds for their adoption. Amy left back on Monday evening. Her visit coincided with my sister Cathy's visit as well. As I probably stated before, Layla has some pretty cool friends! Comedy Time! What can I say? We are in Florida after all! Spre...

Duck or Duck lookalikes Residents in the Parking  This is week 7 of treatment. We have 5 more to go (we think) before we get to a maintenance phase of every other week for a period of time followed by once a month till we have a comfortable period of no evidence/stable disease. Our treatment this week consisted of Vitamin C and Hyperbaric Oxygen. Chemotherapy which was scheduled for Tuesday is moved to Thursday as Layla's blood count is still low. The plan is to boost the red and white count through some medications meanwhile. The chemo dosage will also be lowered to 25% of the initial start. This is still low dose chemotherapy. We started out with 10% of the typical high dose that is administered at standard practice. At Treatment Grocery Shopping Highlights of the Week Julie and Whitney, Layla's friends from the study abroad program in France visited her this weekend and stayed in the same resort we are at. They both live in New York. We (yes, me too, I...

Yay!! Team Layla T-shirts are in. Thank you Crossfit Belmont Heights for the beautiful tees and tank tops and thank you all for buying one or two or many! All proceeds from the T-shirts sale went to the Plumfund. Olaf's is on Back Order Nick from Crossfit Belmont Heights During the Raffle on Facebook Live Danny! So Happy to See Him Doing Better! Laurence! For Her Morning Runs (in South of France too!) Ezra and Natasha! Lucky Winners of The Ram Tickets. Danny Toasting Layla's Progress! Sarah and Stephen Representing Team Layla Highlights of the Week: This past weekend , Layla got a surprise visit from her sister in law Danielle and her friend Sabrina. They flew from Los Angeles to spend the weekend with her. They mostly hung out at home but managed to go out on Saturday to the movies. They watched "Instant Family" . Thank you ladies!! That is a very long flight for just a weekend.  Layla enjoyed having her friends with her! ...

A Quiet Moment. I hope you all had some time to relax and enjoy the holidays. Our Thanksgiving was not traditional but still very nice. We missed our yearly get together with the rest of the family but were joined with Wes and my sister Cathy and nephew Dan. We celebrated Dan's 25th birthday. Layla had treatment Monday through Wednesday. Wes accompanied her and got to meet Dr. Rosenberg and the nursing crew. Our Thanksgiving consisted of a pre-ordered Whole Foods Turkey+ Meal along with some home made stuff. It was delicious!  We might have a new tradition from now on! We hung out mostly at home. Layla was exhausted, a side effect of both immunotherapy and chemotherapy. We had rented a house for 6 days to bridge the gap between our Mexico trip and our third phase of treatment. Happy Thanksgiving! Layla modeling her new outfit dubbed the "Huggle" (gift from Cathy). Olaf is not sure about the portions! Family Thanksgiving Selfie. On Saturday...

Welcome to Mexico City Our trip home was full of wonderful events. We celebrated our bride to be, Amy, with an amazing group of her family members and friends and we attended Romeo Chocolate’s evening of chocolate and wine. There was a huge turnout. Thank you to everyone who participated! The fund raiser resulted in $1,700 dollars that will be added to our PlumFund to cover Layla’s medical expenses. Our Bride to Be Amy with Layla Our Bride to Be with her Crew Celebrating Amy Layla and her Tour Guides helping at Romeo Chocolates Great turnout at Romeo Chocolates We spent Monday traveling to Mexico City. We were picked up at the airport by a driver from Dr. Williams team. We are staying in the Santa Fe area of Mexico City conveniently located next to a mall called SAMARA. Upon check in at the hotel, the front desk clerk was very curious to know the meaning of my name going on to explain that the hotel is connected to a mall that bears the ...