safe and strong and comfortable and positive through this absolute beast of a cancer.
We thought we had some serious perseverance the first time but this second go-around has been 10 times worse in almost every way imaginable.
She spent 56 nights in the hospital in 2014.
She spent 62 nights in the hospital in 2015 – including most of the football season, my birthday, Halloween – plus Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
In between, while she walked the earth cancer free for 15 months, we did our best to tell the world how her life was saved on our baseball tour this summer and we threw an evening of heroes in May that the was the highlight of what became a very choppy and challenging year.
But it’s New Year’s Eve 2015 and it’s our 2016 “resolution” to keep her out of the hospital in the upcoming year.
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There’s a real possibility that this nightmare could be behind us once and for all.
She’ll be going back to the hospital regularly for monitoring and we’ll be doing our best to keep her healthy – away from the flu, colds, sick kids, runny noses and germs. Essentially, she needs to avoid people and public places for the rest of the winter.
We expect that she’ll be getting better every day, just like she did after her transplant during the summer of 2014.
Keep the faith. We are.
And, when the clock strikes midnight, please make 2016 your best year yet.
Love who you love and love them big time!
Go where you want to go. Be with the people you want to be with this year. Do the stuff you’ve always talked about doing.
8Live the way you want to live – with passion, energy and joy!
Happy New Year!
#JennStrong2 is alive and coming back to life more every day.
We hope there’s a celebration sometime later in the year when we’ll get to give all of you a hug and do something great for There Goes My Hero and other leukemia survivors.
#BMorePositive
Love from downtown Baltimore,
8Nes, Jenn & Kitty
