Hard cont.

I apologize for ending the last post so abruptly but it was a very emotional post to write and I was having a hard time getting through it. I want to thank everyone who has reached out to us over the weekend and offered advise, prayers and assistance- thank you all so much! Here is where we are today in regards to everything.

1.) Chemo medication- Rion just texted me that his pills were FINALLY delivered this morning. After speaking with our prescription drug company Friday numerous times, they are allowing us to be billed for the prescription which gives us more time to get our application for financial assistance approved. There was a mix-up in the delivery schedule and they were supposed to arrive on Saturday, after waiting around ALL.DAY.LONG to sign for them, we finally called and were told that the shipments were behind and they would *try* to get the medication to us Monday. I explained that they needed to do better than try, as Rion has to start taking them at 7:30AM Tuesday; they couldn't make any guarantees but now that they are delivered it's over and done with. We will hopefully get the financial assistance to pay for the prescription by the time we receive the bill, I am going to look around this week and see if there are any more grants/aid sources that I have missed. I've applied to about 4 and waiting on paperwork back from the Duke oncologist to finish up 3 more applications.

2.) Fertility preservation- With God's help, I was able to get the LiveStrong financial assistance application put together, submitted and APPROVED on Friday! We filled out all the paper work this weekend and sent the kit back this morning. My only worry now is that we should have waited until later in the day to drop the kit off at FedEx because it won't even be picked up until 4:00 this afternoon. But there is nothing we can do about it now. Once the kit is received tomorrow, the specimen will be tested to see how much if it survived transport, we can call Wednesday to get the numbers and see if it's worth it to preserve it for future use. Please, please, please pray we get good news! We need some good news these days and this is something that means so much to us I can't even put it into words.

So at least things are coming together before Rion starts all of his treatment tomorrow. We are a bundle of nerves not knowing what to expect but also ready to get this started and deal with whatever comes up.

We'll let y'all know if anything new comes up or any specials prayers are needed!

Love,
Emily & Rion