Grandma Update and Christmas Stuff

Hi Guys! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and your New Year is "Twixerrific" as well!

I had a great Christmas and am a little late showing you the wonderful things I got! Hopefully you aren't Christmassed out and bored to death looking at my photos.

A note of warning: This is a long and picture heavy post. For some reason, Mom thinks she has to post most of the photos she took. She says it is because I'm so darn cute....I can't help that, ya know!

First off, I got a gift from Minna K in the mail because I joined Jazzi's Christmas Gift Exchange.
Thanks for hosting that Jazzi! It was great fun!

Mom made me wait to open it with my gift from Santa Paws. I wasn't all too happy about it either.

 

Momma made me open my Santa Paws gift first.

She said something about saving the best for last.

Ummmm.....aren't these my gifts?

Why can't I open the best first?

Whatever, just let me get in these boxes!

Something smells mighty tasty in here!

 

Scratch, scratch......

 

Sniff, sniff.....

 

Oooooh! I was right these are tasty!



I don't mean to talk with my mouth full.....
I just can't help myself!



So, Santa Paws brought me a box of Wellness Well Bars and a bag of Fruitables cookies.
 That's it!
 I musta been a naughty girl this year.
At least it wasn't coal, right?

 

Now, Minna's gift, that is something to talk about!

Mmmmmmm, I smell something good in here too!
Can somebody get this stuffing outta my way? 

 

Yummo!

I got my very own stocking!

Hey! What's in that box, Dad?

 

Pawesome! My very own ornament of ME!!!!



Lookie at all this wonderful stuff I got from Minna!!!!

A doxie card ;o)

2 bags of treats and ones I've not tried out before! Double ;o)

My ornament ;o)

A stocking with MY name on it ;o)

And check out the great Christmas collar/necklace ;o)



I better double check and make sure those humans got everything outta my box.

Thank you so very much, Minna Krebs!!!!

I love everything!

And thank you Jazzi for hosting such a wonderful
Blogville event!

Taste testing time!!!

What?
You don't think I'm sharing these treats with you, do you?

Thanks to everyone who has asked about Grandma. We really appreciate your thoughts, crossed paws, and prayers.  And, we need them more than ever now.

Grandma saw the specialist last week and we learned that she has a type of Leukemia called Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia (CMML).  It is a rare type of Leukemia that the doctors believe was caused by her chemotherapy.  She will have to have a bone marrow/stem cell transplant. And with her type of Leukemia, they will have to kill the bone marrow she has now before the transplant so that the new cells aren't mutated by the bad ones. What that means is that she will have absolutely NO immunity system and will be confined to her house for 100 days afterwards, no visitors, only trips to the doctor's office.

Fortunately, my grandma has 5 brothers and sisters who are all willing to be tested as potential donors.  We are hoping one of them will be a match and she will be able to get started with her treatment as soon as possible. We are also hoping Grandma's insurance company will completely cover the expenses related to her treatment.

It is all so very hard to understand because it doesn't seem right or fair that something used to get rid of cancer can give it to you. Not right at all.

A few photos taken Christmas Eve of Grandma and Baby Elizabeth:



 

Please continue to keep us in your thoughts and prayers. We will try to update you when we have new information.  Mom and I have not been leaving comments much lately and I know you understand. We do read your posts and you guys provide us laughter on days when we need it most!

 

If you are interested in finding out more about CMML,
 please click here.

If there is any incorrect information on here regarding CMML and treatment we apologize, this is how we understand things from the information we were given.