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A week or so before Colleen was diagnosed with leukemia another lady at our church was diagnosed with Breast Cancer . In order to recognize both  the varsity teams decided to put a yellow ribbon on their shoes for Colleen and wrote leen on God on it and a pink ribbon on the other shoe with Myles of hope written on it. We were very touched by their thoughtfulness. It was very creative and touching we shed a few happy tears over it. This is where the name for our blog was taken from.

Colleen gets really sleepy after her chemo treatments for about 2 days. On Sunday she resumed being her normal smiley self. We are happy to see her smiling again. This friday is another round of chemotherapy but this time she will be placed under anesthesia, a needle will be placed in her spine and the chemotherapy will be placed inside of that needle and it will be removed. Being a nurse i sometimes assume that others know what a bone marrow biopsy is but many have a puzzled look when  i mention it so for those of you who are not aware, I am going to explain the procedure. While Colleen is sleeping under anesthesia, a large needle is placed in her hip bone and the contents of the bone marrow are taken out. It is then looked at under a microscope or placed in a special machine to determine how many cancer cells are remaining. During the last bone marrow the doctors expected to see one percent of cancer cells under a microscope but to their surprise none were visible. There were one percent of cancer cells remaining but this was only detected with a high tech machine. This time doctors are expecting to see less than .01 percent of cancer cells. We look forward to seeing very good results. God has exceeded our expectations consistently and we are expecting great things. Thank you for praying! Please pray that Colleen will have little or no pain after the bone marrow test. Thanks again!