Walker's Meals: Google Doc sign up

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AoWI9_iy1r9IdGlTR2tqRlZCQXIwWjB5NmZKRDFaRXc&hl=en_US


You can always find this link at the top of this blog at any time. Carol Ericson is managing this calendar. There is a cooler on the Walker's porch to leave items in, please only use disposable containers so they do not need to be returned, and add heating/cooking/freezing instructions. Bring ice if you are concerned about the temperature of the food. Carol will update and add more dates as the she knows what the Walker's needs are. In addition to frozen or freshly prepared meals, please feel free to drop off grocery gift cards (Whole Foods etc), Tasty Taxi gift cards, or gift cards for restaurants, especially those around the hospital.
(Qdoba, Noodles & Co, )

A "google doc" is live, interactive and available for all to see and update. When you make changes on it, everyone's version is changed.

School

Faye has a lot of AP and Honors courses including calculus and engineering physics. Lolly and Steve are actively working with CCSD and CCHS looking at school for normal classes, alternatives, dropping classes, personal tutors, home schooling ...etc.

Chemotherapy

Chemotherapy and radiation treatments are now scheduled thru January/February 2012. Faye is scheduled for four cycles of chemo lasting 84 days which began on Wednesday (9/12), each cycle taking 21 days. The first seven days require administration of intravenous drugs at Children's followed by 3-5 days of recovery from the side effects, and the last 10 days or so should be the time she feels the best.

Lime T-Shirt anyone?

Melpomene Vasiliou, Sarah Couch and other loyal fans of Faye produce shirts for Faye-th. See the FaceBook Group for Faye-th to find out more.

Faye-th

Sara Couch, with the help of Grace Mimmack, and Zoe Walker as administrators launch the FaceBook Group Page Faye-th 
Click here to Join!

Diagnosis

After the biopsies and scans were completed, it was confirmed as Hogkin's Lymphoma. Faye is in Stage 2a, "not what we'd had hoped for but not what we'd most feared either". The survival rate for Hodgkin's Stage 2a is 91%. Faye's prognosis is good.

Sept 20, 2011

"The group at children's are so awesome. There is a formal team of 2 oncologists assigned to Faye plus heart and gyno specialists. All of them are in love with Faye, she's been such a trouper through this ordeal. Yesterday the oncology team estimated a 6 to 12 month chemo regime followed by radiation. The PET scan this morning showed no disease below the chest and heart and the bone marrow biopsy taken Saturday came up negative ... all good news. Faye has a large tumor on the right side of her upper chest underneath her collar bone and extending below her heart as well as a number of lymph nodes that are cancerous in the upper chest. The good news, the Stage 2a diagnosis after today's testing now calls for a 3 month chemo regime in 21 day cycles followed by radiation for the localized lymph node cancers. Faye will most certainly loose all of her red hair and suffer some degree of nausea, vomiting and general ill feeling. She'll miss a lot of school too. I have no idea what the cost is going to be or how much we're going to have to assume....haven't even gone there yet."

-Steve Walker

A routine check up....

Faye Walker* Steve and Lolly Walker's oldest daughter, went in for a well child check up Wed, Sept 14, and due to some complaints of shoulder pain and shortness of breath, their family doctor, Dr. Andy Bauer ran some additional tests. Within less than two days the shocking results pointed to a mass behind Faye's left clavical, and she was immediately admitted to Children's Hospital in Denver, CO on Friday, September 16th.
The first general diagnosis was lymphatic cancer.
Lymph node, bone marrow and spinal biopsies were done on Saturday, Sept 17th, and the preliminary diagnosis was Hodgkin's Lymphoma.

*Faye, 16, Junior at Cherry Creek High School
Zoe, 15, is a sophomore at CCHS
Lydia, 12 is a 7th grader at Campus Middle School