duke it is

after as long as a talk as we could have and input from o few other sources, karen has decided to try duke u.

we have everything in motion and i have been in contact with Dr. Henry Friedman at duke. he said he would get his people on setting things up and that we needed to get our end going.

dr voloschin's PA at Emory has already faxed karen's reports to duke (upwards towards about 55+ pages. she has also requested that her pathology slides be sent (this usually take about 5 days to get there).

i have requested an MRI cd be made and sent also (this by regular mail should take 3 to 5 days).

we cannot get an appointment until all is at duke for them to review, but when dr friedman's PA called me today to say that she is on it and that as soon as she gets it all she will contact me about the appointment that could be as early as next tuesday. she did say that holidays sometimes mess up the scheduling, but we have about a 14 day window that we need to get in to and they seem to be working to get us in as fast as possible.

on a side note, karen's parents are leaving on sunday morning to go back to arkansas. this will be a very sad day. there is absolutely no way we could have made it this far without them. they need to get home and get things in order there. they may come back sooner than later, but hopefully after Christmas karen won't need anyone with her. we will see. i cannot lie and say that it sometimes can be hard to have people living in your house that are set in their ways, and we in ours, but we made it through and needed them.

we will not be alone though. my aunt georgia and uncle pual are coming down to stay until they want to leave somewhere in the Christmas break.

who knows what the future holds for all of us, please continue to pray for karen and the kids.