Traffic Lights!

Wow! Mom and dad have had lots of green lights and then red lights! They have made three sets of travel plans to go to Salt Lake City now. They have been so blessed to have Aunt Janice's contact in her ward, Dr. Burt, the Director of the Huntsman Cancer Institute. They found out that the Huntsman has one of the leading doctors in Leukemia, Dr. Shammi, practicing there. They got a green light from Dr. Burt that mom could go ahead and come to the Huntsman. Dad has been busy making lots of phone calls and preparing a way so that mom might go to see Dr. Shammi. They got another green light when mom's Kaiser doctor suggested since he could not refer mom to Dr. Shammi, and Kaiser would not cover the costs of the Huntsman, that he, Dr. Crain, would follow whatever Dr. Shammi's routine might be and then Kaiser would carry the cost and all would be done here in California. That was a huge relief to dad and mom. They were going to go to SLC yesterday when a red light went up and dad found out that mom needed to have more blood work done to check out her blood levels to travel. So they made plans to go today. Mom's practitioner, Dr. Kazaroni, macaroni or whatever his name is (he's actually a really nice doctor) called last evening and discussed the most recent tests over with her and dad. Near the end of the conversation, mom reminded doctor how she was gonna be back soon and to not forget that she was going to lick this! Another red light went up when mom's hematologist said she needed blood transfusions before she could go. She is in the midst of doing this now. The new plan is to leave Friday morning to they can be see by Dr. Shammi before the noon hour Friday. Her spirits seem to be up, but she is teary-eyed often. Also, she would recommend two new books for all of those book worms out there. The first one is "The Christmas Sweater" by Glenn Beck and "The Cumorah Christmas". Mom just wanted to say thank you to all of everyone's prayers, all her family, friends and blessings she has received that says she is going to be well, service given especially Dad's loving service as well as that given by Cherie, Celeste, Tana, Chris, Danny, Carla Cook, Mike Upton who got her laptop going so she can communicate from Utah, Crystal Zane and visits by Carmel & family, Shevaun, Jake & Elle as well as the Relief Society and lovely ward members. Mom's obviously feeling well enough because she is feeling feisty enough to tell dad he shouldn't have finished off the carrott cake with all the pecans on top! He left her one bite with no pecans! Go figure!
Celeste