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I want to start off by saying thank you to all of you who have been following Cody's page and praying for him and his family, especially right now. I am going to his service tomorrow and I know it will be just beautiful. Jennifer told me that Cody helped plan it, so it will be exactly what he wanted and a reflection of the amazing, wonderful kid he was, I'm sure. I wasn't sure I would be able to make it tomorrow, but this morning I just prayed that if I was meant to be there that God would open up the doors to work it all out... within the hour I had all 4 kids covered and the time opened to go. He is good.

Kennedy went into clinic today to get her counts checked. Over the last 3 weeks she has been spiking random fevers off and on. I have tried not to be overly concerned with them, but the random fevers were the beginning of her symptoms when she was diagnosed last year. Today her counts came back slightly... off. Not bad really, but just off for her. Her hemonc doctor has decided that to be safe they're going to do a bone marrow biopsy and make sure everything is ok and her Leukemia has not returned.

She made a good point that when Kennedy was first diagnosed she never presented like a typical Leukemia kid. They were all really surprised when her biopsy showed that she had it. (Kennedy doing something not medically normal... imagine THAT!) Therefore it's really better to err on the side of caution. Most likely, Kennedy is FINE... but that's what I was saying just over a year ago as well. As they said, this biopsy will just put all of our fears to rest and we can move forward with her spine surgery with certainty.

The biopsy will be done next week sometime. They don't have a date yet because they aren't sure anesthesia is going to be willing to sedate her without some other tests (is that like de ja vu or what?!). Kim, who does the biopsies, was leaving a message for them as we left so I'm sure we'll hear in the next couple days.

All that to say, don't freak out. I'm fairly confident that she will be fine, but I did want to post to ask you guys to pray and so if it DOES come back bad you won't say, "WHY didn't you tell us?!" haha I will keep you all posted as I know more.