a little more info

So I'm sitting here at the hospital and Jake is snoring away and I thought I would give you a few more details of what happened with us.  Heidi is home (hopefully sleeping) with the boys.  My parents drove out first thing this morning and my brother flew out as well.  Heidi's family, for the most part, is here and has been very helpful with the boys as well.  We are lucky to have such great family and friend's.  

I was at the lake in Reno with my dad working on our pipe when Heidi called and said she was going to take Jake to the doctor.  We thought he had the flu.  Well, I keep working and notice I have a message on my phone.  It is Heidi saying she was being taken by ambulance to Primary Children's for Jake...then her phone died.  I tried calling her back but she had forgotten to charge her phone and it had died.  I finally get in touch with her mom, but she didn't really know what was going on.  They thought it was some sort of infection.  Serious, but nothing too serious.  Anyhow, I change my ticket and start driving back to my parents house in Reno, about an hour drive.  Right before we pull in Heidi calls and says it's leukemia!  Wow.  Not the easiest jump to go from maybe the flu or strep to an infection to leukemia.  I don't really know any kids that have had leukemia.  Anyhow, I fly back and Heidi didn't have any more info before I left.  It was a tough plane ride to say the least.  I finally get to the hospital and Heidi is so strong and brave...as was/is Jakers.  Still no more information.  Apparently Jake had one of two types of leukemia.  Either AML--the one that's a little tougher to treat or ALL.  AML has about a 50/50 survival rate at 5 years while ALL has about an 85-90 success rate.  By success rate I mean they are still alive after 5 years.  Well, this morning our doctor told us she thought Jake had AML.  Obviously, it had been a tough 24 hours or so.  Well, before he went in for surgery, the doctor came back and she told us the tests had shown he had ALL.  Well, after our blood work had as much problems as it did with Heidi's last pregnancy, I made sure she had our blood work right.  As the doctor said, it's not a great day when you are excited about your kid having ALL leukemia but we were excited.  

I think it's important to note that Jakers is a fighter.  He's not going to give up.  His mom is a fighter.  Our lifestyle is taking a harsh change of direction, but nothing is going to keep us from being optimistic that Big Jake is going to beat this.  We are lucky to have the religious beliefs we do and to have the friends and family that we do.  It's been a tough 36 hours.  Not a lot of sleep going on here, but we're believers.  We have a great support group and the facilities here at Primary Children's are great.  That's where we're at.  I think we wrote the basics of what he will be doing for the next 3 1/2 years in the last post.  There you have it.