http://torand.org the power of two became one Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:09:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This past week has been a rough one. I have been writing on this blog about my brother's wife Diane and her battle with cancer. Diane passed peacefully on the evening of Aug 25. She was diagnosed exactly one year earlier, and my brother and niece were optimistic about the ... http://torand.org/2009/09/03/today-we-say-good-bye/ My sister-in-law has been fighting acute myelogenous leukemia cancer for the past year. Tom and Diane have taken every tack in fighting this foe, chemotherapy, radiation even a bone marrow transplant. They went after this foe with every tool that the medial community had to offer. They have put up ... http://torand.org/2009/08/19/fighting-the-good-fight/ So why is it that everytime you go to the dentist, it's always bad news. I just visited my dentist today and it's been 8 months. I thought that it was Spring when I visited him last. So, it's never good news. I have to go ... http://torand.org/2009/08/18/dentist-appointments/ So we were at my parents this past weekend, myself, Mitz, Amanda, Erika and her boyfriend Bradley. We flew into Kansas City Thursday because it was cheaper and Erika was suppose to fly into Des Moines on Friday. As we were having our breakfast at my sister's, Erika calls somewhat ... http://torand.org/2008/09/24/you-are-where/ We went to Iowa for the weekend.  Originally, we were supposed to go for a wedding, but plans changed.  Instead of changing our tickets and paying some outrageous airline fees, we decided to use the tickets and head to see the family anyway.  So, instead of a wedding, we had ... http://torand.org/2008/09/23/family-reunion/ Tom posted this on the CaringBridge blog... 9-12 We have some good news today. The results of the bone marrow biopsy is back and it did NOT show any cancer cells. So right now it is a waiting game for her counts to come up. She will still get ... http://torand.org/2008/09/13/good-news/ I'm waiting in line at the bank drive-thru window. I'm excited because I'm going home and I'm next in line. There is one car behind me. The lady at the window had children in the back seat. She must have not had everything she needed because ... http://torand.org/2008/09/10/irritated-at-self-centered-people/ I talked to my parents today to nail down some of the details on us traveling to Des Moines later this month. We were going to change our tickets to fly out in November for the wedding, but the airlines wanted a 120% premium to change our tickets to a ... http://torand.org/2008/09/01/just-to-be-there/ We talked to my brother last night. He is doing as well as you would expect. My sister in law has started chemotherapy and had her bone marrow checked. They still don't know how aggressive they need to be with treatment, they will wait until after this round of ... http://torand.org/2008/08/29/a-long-road-ahead/ I got a call Monday night from my sister Jan informing me that my sister-in-law was just diagnosed with leukemia. This is devastating to the whole Anderson family. Tom, my brother, told our parents face to face, I am glad about that. Mom does not handle this type of information ... http://torand.org/2008/08/27/cancer-a-scary-disease-that-effects-everyone/