Update

Day 203 on the Road to Recovery… The last few weeks have been event-filled, but fortunately almost all positive.   One of the reasons we feel so comfortable at Memorial Sloan Kettering is because of the amazing care they provide all of their patients, and the lengths that they will go to make sure their […]

Day 176 on the Road to Recovery… We’ve just completed Sophie’s 3rd post-surgery chemo cycle, and yesterday started the next round. For the 3rd cycle, we were again lucky to only visit MSK sporadically for therapy and blood count visits.  We have also enjoyed a few more visits with different cousins from both near and […]

Day 156 on the Road to Recovery… We have just completed our 3rd of 8 post-surgical chemo rounds today.  Although tired and worn out from the past couple of days, as always Sophie has kept her spirits up and continues to makes us laugh daily with her old and new tricks, jokes, and games.  Just […]

It has been a while since our last blog post, but no news can often be good news with situations such as these.  Sophie began her first post-surgical chemo round on Monday, March 6th, one week after the doctors initially wanted to begin.  Although she was doing extremely well post-surgery, our surgeon felt it was […]

Day 106 on the Road to Recovery… Sophie’s recovery thus far has had a few ups and downs, but overall she is truly one amazing fighter of a kid.  Post-surgery, we remained in the Pediatric ICU for 11 days, with an additional night on the regular pediatric floor.  During that time period, Sophie recovered remarkably […]

Day 90 on the Road to Recovery… Yesterday was truly one of the longest and most difficult days we have experienced thus far. Sophie’s surgery was originally scheduled for 8:30 am, with an arrival time of 7 am to MSK. When we got there in the morning, we were informed that an emergency case had […]

Thank God (B”h) Sophie is out of surgery after 7.5 hours and resting in the PICU. Thank you so much to all who prayed, said tehillim, and did a good deed for Sophie today and in all the days leading up to her surgery.  Please continue to keep her in your thoughts and prayers over […]

Day 85 on the Road to Recovery… The last couple of weeks have been a bit of a blur as we prep for Sophie’s surgery. First came our all-too familiar “neutropenic fever”, which forced us into the hospital for a few days, including shabbos of last week. Yet again, there was something new introduced to the equation; […]

Day 70 on the road to recovery… We are finally on to our fourth and final round of chemo prior to surgery, but with it came another surprise twist… While Sophie’s flu is now gone, she has come down with a new virus that is forcing us to remain in complete isolation throughout the entire […]

Day 64 on the Road to Recovery… This week, Sophie came down with the flu. Its the same miserable flu that winter after winter, everyone hopes to avoid, but many can’t. Only this time, everything is different. On Monday morning, Sophie was acting great and happy to be playing at home. By Monday late afternoon she had developed a high fever […]