Dance Marathon and more

On Saturday night we made a quick trip to the U of O Dance Marathon which benefits Children's Miracle Network to share our story. The students dance for 12 hours and raise money for CMN - it is quite the party! They showed our video and Linda spoke for a few minutes to the students there. Ava was just fine in the spotlight with 500 plus of students cheering for her! She had some students that were assigned to her - they made her a couple cool posters (one of the "AVA" posters was visible on the news that night for a bit!). Ava has reached a level of notoriety in CMN circles, and it was fun to walk around the event with the students saying "That's Ava!" as we walked by. CMN has been posting our story in many forums and sharing the You Tube CMN video of our family.

Ava posing with her Kappa Delta sorority friends:


Ava is doing great, expanding her vocabulary by a word or two every week. I keep thinking she will be walking any day now (she walks while we hold one of her hands) but won't go beyond a couple steps. This can be seen as a good thing as when she is walking nothing will be safe!

Linda had her quarterly checkup with the oncologist and all continues to be clear which is great news. Her tumor markers (blood test that can be linked with tumor activity) are nice and low. She does have various pains and aches in the area that was treated but that is expected.

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Here's a video of Ava "walking" on our neighborhood sidewalk with Linda:

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