Carlie O Update

Well we went to the pediatric oncologist/hematologist on Friday at OHSU/Doernbecher Children's Hospital in Portland for Carlie. They don't "think" she has leukemia or lymphoma, but they find her case to be puzzling. 4% of her lymph node cells are clustered together with a special marker (this is not normal - this is what cancer does). They did some blood work and a chest x-ray to verify their diagnosis of no cancer. They will call us next week with the test results. Carlie thought it was really fun to go to the hospital. We got there early so we could ride the tram up to the hospital. She called it a rocket (those of you who watch Little Einsteins can understand why she thought it was so cool to be in a rocket ship). She also got a superhero cape (some lady makes them for the kid cancer patients and a Barbie for getting her blood drawn.
The saddest part was seeing all the kids there with cancer. Most of them at various stages of baldness and weakness. I suggest everyone say a prayer for these brave and strong kids who have to endure something NO kid should have to endure. It broke my heart.
Just an interesting side note. This is where they discovered and developed my cancer drug, Gleevec.