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Thursday, February 22, 2007

Long Week…

This has been a long week for all of us, especially Alese. She’s an amazing woman.

We want to thank you all for your continued prayers for Alese and our family, this is a serious infection and treating this ailment is ongoing. However, through all this some great things have happened and praise worthy that I want to share:

She had the Hickman removed Tuesday night under local anesthetic, she experienced no pain, zero.

She was supposed to have a spinal tap; however the Neurologist changed his mind yesterday and felt it would not be necessary. Alese had one of these years ago and it was a horrible experience. This was one of Alese's answered prayers.

Since her last stem cell transplant in 2002, her blood pressure dropped from normal averages to 95 over 55, this is low for an adult and doctors told us this was caused by the high dose chemotherapy she received. For some reason that doctors cannot explain her resting blood pressure is now back to normal 118 over 75. This just happened Wednesday. Amazing!

She is alert and is aware of all her surroundings, the blank stare she had over the last couple of days are gone.

‘Father, thank you for spearing Alese this pain and hearing the prayers of those so faithful to your calling, we praise you for all you have done and all you are going to do, thank you Lord.’

As we celebrate these incremental successes, we ask you to continue praying for Alese for the following issues. First, this horrible headache that she’s had for weeks will go away and the small twitches that began Sunday that she experiences during waking and sleeping hours will cease. Also, in coming weeks, she’ll begin the aggressive and painful process of high dose chemotherapy, followed by a stem cell transplant to resolve this lymphoma. Please pray for strength, peace, perseverance and cure.

This week, people from all over the world and all walks of life have to come to her website. We’ve read her all the guestbook entries and e-mails that have been sent, she feels your prayers, love and support; it’s given her strength and renewed her hope. Thank you.

We want to thank you for your continued prayers for Alese and our family. We could not get through this without our family and unbelievable friends…Thank you.

We’ll update this site as information becomes available.

The Coco’s

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