More Madness in the Mendenhall world

Jeromy & I have had the unthinkable happen to our little family. It's hard to even know what to say now, 20 days later. Ethan our 5 year old first born child was diagnosed with IV stage Neuroblastoma on Nov. 3rd 2009 the word no parent ever wants to hear CANCER. A CT scan revealed the tumor on Oct. 30 and we have been in a world wind ever since. A two week stay at Primary Children's Medical Center, where he recovered from his first surgery, and received his first of 6 rounds of Chemotherapy, and back up to PCMC after only 3 days at home to treat a fever. We have over a year of treatments that lay ahead of us, included Chemotherapy, harvesting stem cells, radiation, surgery for the 2nd time, & a single but possibly a double bone marrow transplant. We are sure of Ethan's strength and his faith and testimony, as well as our families and we full plan on winning!!! We have a website for Ethan that we update regularly about Ethan's treatment and how we are all doing. www.cargingbridge.org/visit/ethanmendenhall

I also wanted to post our Halloween photos for this year. Ethan really wanted to go trick er-treating with his best friend Bridger Toone and their family. We feel it was important & that Ethan deserved to go Trick er-Treating for the first time with a best friend. Thanks so much for allowing us to share your Halloween with your family, the Toones have been really great friends to our whole family.