How you can help our family???

Today I'm grateful for...
Having more time in this life
Seeing the kids grow up
Being there for my wife
Holding the Angelic girl, a lot

I'm holding Lourdes on my chest as I finish feeding her one of her many nighttime milk treats. She's doing so great. The ear issue seems to have gotten better after 10 days of antibiotics, and a lot of fussiness. When I'm not working the next day I will sometimes do the two or three night feedings, so my wife can get some needed rest, and tonight I'm up at 4:00 thinking about Lulu and the radiation treatment coming up. We have been feeding Lourdes rice in both the bottle and by spoon, and I really think that she getting to like it? My goal (as I'm sure any parent of a 7 month old infant has) is to get her to sleep through the night. I know that one day soon Lourdes will slumber through the nighttime hours and I look back and miss those special times we got to spend together?

I have been having a good friend (maybe your could call her an angel) help us with finding a place for Lulu to stay during the radiation treatment at UCSF. This friend has been instrumental in helping us find lodging for the surgery and the many radiation treatments throughout this ordeal (remember the wonderful overnight stay at the Ritz Carlton Hotel?). I just knew that we needed some help in locating a convenient and comfortable place that could accommodate both Lulu and the family at times? We have found a small apartment for Lulu to stay at for the 5 to 6 weeks of treatment, but we're thinking that the "Rusty Door Motel" would be much more affordable?

If you'd like to help, Lulu and I have posted a button on this blog where you could donate to help with the costs associated with the expenses of the radiation treatment in San Francisco. As many expenses from the medical costs for surgery, chemotherapy, many doctors exams, and now the radiation; arrive in the mail, and a long with Lulu not working for the last 9 months, any amount would help with defraying the costs. I know that many of our friends and parents have asked, "How can we help", and this is a way to relieve us of some worries. Lulu is going to be flying down to San Francisco weekly to stay for the Monday through Friday, and I will be driving there for the support on Wednesdays and driving her back at the end of the week. We plan on taking the kids with us for a couple of the treatment weeks. I have posted a link here in the blog to donate to help the Molina-Wilkerson family with the costs of the housing and travel to San Francisco, so if you're inclined (just for the record, Lulu has been against asking for an help during this whole cancer ordeal; however, I have heard form so many of you that you want to help her, and I know that she has been wonderfully surprised with how many people have been there for us).

As strange as this sounds, I'm quietly looking forward to the next 6 weeks of Lulu's treatment. I think that it's a combination of getting one more part of the treatment for the cancer over and behind us, or if the thought of spending so more quality time together as husband and wife? Lulu has been told the radiation treatments will take about an hour a day, and that she will have very little side effects during the treatments. So, that leaves the rest of the days for sharing each other's company? I'm so glad that I enjoy my wife's presence, because we are going to get a lot of quality time together in this next 6 weeks. I have been thinking about what I'm going to talk about already. How lucky we are to have each other to get through the difficulties we've faced this last 12 months, how we are raising the kids and what we can do better for them, where do we see ourselves professionally in the future years, and how as a family can we become closer? Hopefully, cancer doesn't have to strike your family to ask yourself some of these same questions? Everyone of us can be looking for answers to happiness without having these kind of life changing events slapping us in the face.

I want to thank everyone of you. Our friends, family, and acquaintances that have been praying for our family, and have been there for us through the difficult times that we are facing. It means a lot to both Lulu and I to have so many people worried about our health and well being. We're awe struck daily with the numbers of well wishers and faithful people following our life's. Thank you!