Support Amanda

Sunday, April 15, 2012 9:34 AM, CDT

Day 4

Day One said
"The fight continues," It should have said, "The fight
begins!"


Now it's
starting to feel like the fight continues. I hesitate to even say that now, as
there's such a hill to climb ahead.


Time is
doing funny things these days. One moment it feels like the clock is moving
backwards, or at least everything is in slow motion. The day of the diagnosis,
for instance, felt like the longest three
days of our lives. Then somehow the end of the day arrives, as it always does,
and I wonder where the day went. Right now I'm wondering where the last week
went.


We're doing
much better than just a few short days ago. We're trying to be optimistic and
you all have been instrumental in propping up Amanda, the girls, and I, and
making us feel so much love and support throughout this thing. Keep it up.


Our optimism
originally derived from a positive and confident staff of terrific doctors,
nurses, aids, and volunteers. On the same day Dr. Burns terrified and shook us
to our core with the word Leukemia, she also, hours later, gave us hope and an incredible
sense of relief with the words remission and cure. Of course they can't
guarantee either, but we're sure they're committed trying with all they've got.
Amanda's youth, health otherwise, attitude, and faith will carry us the rest of
the way. Of that I am sure.

I'll have
more in the future. Thank you all again for your support, thought, visits,
flowers, food, and prayers.

-Zach