Brian Robert & LCH: Our 100th Post

Saturday, July 28, 2012

Our 100th Post

This is the 100th post for the blog. For the occasion, I thought I would share some cute pictures from the other celebration we had today.

Cousin Caleb will turn one on Monday and today we drove over to Panama City for his birthday party. It was a good day.

Funny story, yesterday when we were at the hospital getting Brian's blood work done, we had three different people point and stare at us. I couldn't figure out why we were such a sight. I mean, four kids is not that many...

I finally put it all together when I looked at a picture I took of the kids yesterday. You can see what I mean in the picture below too. I think because I dress the boys alike and the girls alike OR dress them all coordinating (because I think it's cute) in combination with them being so close in age, that people are staring to see if they are multiples.

So, here are our cute kids that get stares almost everywhere we go.

Everyone (except Liv) is holding up one finger for Caleb turning ONE.

Schreiber kids with the birthday boy.

And all nine grandchildren for Bigdaddy and Grandma Hayes. From ages 1 to 10! (And I still have two other siblings that haven't had children yet.)

William, Brian, Joseph, Natalie, Noah, Ansley, Caleb, Claire and Olivia

My older brother Jonathan and I kept our families nice and even. We each have two boys and two girls. So, Jess and Matt, now that Caleb is one it's time to have triplets...one boy and two girls!!

1 comment:

Jessica Teplicek said...: I'll be sure to read Matt your PS on our having triplets...if that does ever happen you can then visit him at Dabney's work for the following 72 hours after finding out! :) HAHA!!!!
I can vouch to your friend that you LOVED the cobbler...she rubbed it in my face over skype!! looked delicious!
LOVE YOU GUY!!!; August 4, 2012 at 8:37 AM

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Brian, BB or "B-ber"

Brian is our seven year old boy. He is the third of four children, all born in just four years. Sept 2009 Brian was diagnosed with Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis. He spent seven months on Chemo and steriods. In April 2010 we had his port removed and celebrated "no more chemo!". His treatment from May forward was oral medicine on the weekends and scans/bloodwork every three months. Brian's firt set of scans/follow up with the oncologist in July were wonderful. We didn't quite make it to his second set of scans three months later in October. In late July/ early August we started noticing suspicious bumps on his scalp and a rash on his private area. On Sept 15, 2010 we took Brian to his oncologist. That appointment revealed the possibilty of more chemo. September 21 we had a biopsy that two days later revealed that Brian's LCH was back. We immediately had surgery to implant a port and in Oct 2010 started a second journey through chemotherapy and steroids for our little Brian. In March 2011 Brian's chemo drugs were changed around as his new protocal was not working. Brian was still presenting symptoms. We went back to the original combination of drugs but this time instead of being on them six months the plan was for twelve months. Brian completed his second round of chemo March 8, 2012. Even though Brian was completing treatment, we started noticing symptoms of Diabetes Insipidus in March 2012. He was diagnosed with D.I. March 22, 2012. His new diagnosis was considered a relapse for his LCH. Brian's third round (or fourth protocol depending on how you look at it) of chemo and a totally different protocol began April 2012. He had chemo five days in a row followed by a three week break for 12 months. He completed that protocol the first week of April 2013. In July of 2013 Brian had his port removed and we were over the moon excited about NO MORE CHEMO. In October of 2013 Brian had a recurrence of symptoms. He took six months of oral chemo. In April of 2014 he had another MRI. It was decided that Brian could stop treatment. By August-September 2014 he started showing symptoms again. October 2014 we are back in Houston to see what the next step will be for treatment of Brian's LCH.