I think that is todays date,not quite sure. Erin is half asleep and told me what to use as a title. I guess she is dreaming about Spanish. Erin is still sleeping alot and uncomfortable from surgery. Nothing really scheduled at this time just waiting to recover from side affects. We are hoping to have some time at home before the next round starts.

Have a good day,

Love, Lori

Hi everyone,

Once again I am posting for Erin. Today she had second surgery for feeding tube. We hope to have better luck keeping this one in place. Today she is uncomfortable but so far has been resting and sleeping good after surgery. I am hoping for Erin to feel better soon so she can enjoy her company and talk to some friends.

Thanks for checking in on us,

Love, Lori

Good morning everyone,
Erin is still pretty sick from the treatments and thankfully is sleeping a lot so I will write her message again today. At this point we are not in much better shape than we were yesterday (but not worse) and hopefully we will see some improvement throughout the day, the doctors are just saying we basically need to just wait it out. When Erin is awake she does like for me to read her all the messages so thank-you to all who are writing and please keep them coming. I want to also send out a huge thank-you to Erik Nicklaw, Erin's volleyball coach who took part in the St.Baldricks day fundraiser by shaving his head and raising money for childhood cancer in Erin's name. Hope you all have a great day.

Love
John

Hi everyone,
Unfortunately Erin is not in any shape to be posting messages right now so I will send this one. The chemo treatments ended this morning but the side affects continue so we are not sure at this point when we will be able to take her home. The side affects are not quite as bad as the last treatment but much worse than the docs were expecting for this round. We wish we were home to join you all for lunch at Subway(one of Erin's favorites) but you'll have to let us know how it went in the guest book. We look forward to hearing from you.

Love
John

The good news is that we will be done with this round of chemo tomorrow at 8:00 a.m. The not so good news is that Erin's feeding tube came out and a new surgery for replacement will most likely be done on Monday. This has been another challenging treatment for Erin and we ask that you continue to pray for her.

Love you all,
Lori

No big plans today. Still having pain from surgery, hopefully that will be getting better soon. Looking forward to having alot of visitors today. Chemo treatments continue thru Sat.

Thanks for following and thinking of me.
Special HAPPY BIRTHDAY WISHES to my 7h friend Jesse!!!

Love you all,

Erin Renee

1. Spinal Tap
2. Surgery
3. Chemo

After all of this, I amn little bit of pain and sort of beat.

I know that I am in your thoughts and prayers everyday, but i would like to ask you to prayer for Heather, a 16 year old girl on my floor who just lost her fight with brain cancer.

So much to do, and so many people to thank!
It is great that this weekend I was feeling good, because I was able to attend all of the "Carin' for Erin" fundraisers. Starting Friday with the Bake Sale downtown-then Saturday with the Spaghetti Dinner at my church-ending Sunday with the brunch at The Brick House Cafe. Thanks to everyone who made these events possible! And those who attended.

Love you all!
Erin Renee

Oh yeah...if you see any bags of bottles on the side of the street, my Aunt Susie probably dropped them out of her truck on her way home from the bottle drive.

As most of you probably know, I love shopping. But of course recently I haven't been able to do that. But, the last two days my mom and I have been able to get out of the house and pick up a couple of things that we have been wanting to get. Today we will go out once more to search for a birthday present for my brother, even though he won't tell us what he wants!!!

And after all of this shopping, I plan to rest, to get ready for company that is coming.

Thank you all for your support!
Lots of love,
Erin Renee xoxo

Well since I have missed so much school and am so far behind, now that I am feeling okay, I have some work to do. Today at 11, is math and I will do spanish either today or tomorrow. But, other than that, not much is going on. I would love to get out for a while but who knows what I could actually do...Maybe mom and I will think of something.

Thanks for following my progress.
Love you all!
Erin Renee

So I have been home now for about 5 days, and everything is well but still not feeling great. Plus,since things aren't closer to perfect, I have a longer stay at home. They don't want to make me sick again until they make sure I am 100% for a couple of days first. Oh well.

Oh, and sorry that I haven't said anything lately, my internet has been down, but not much news.

Thanks again to all of you for keeping me in your thoughts and prayers. I love you all!

Erin Renee

So, today I am feeling pretty good and it seems like a lot of people are planning on stopping by and visiting, which is fine by me. Also today, I think I might go to a benefit that I had just heard about.

So far, today is looking like a good day. I hope it stays that way.

Love you all!

So today I was finally allowed to leave the hospital, and because of the extra long stay, I already feel much better than I did when I first got home from last admission.

I also wanted to let anyone who is interested know that I am up for some visitors, but please call first.

I love you all!
Erin Renee

So my counts are rising, which means that my rashes and sores are getting better quickly. And with the pain going away, I should be able to go home tomorrow. The only thing is that it will probably be a short stay because next treatment should start sometime next week.

Looking forward to seeing as many of you as I can!!
Erin Renee :)

So another good day goes by, but today I got to do something kinda neat. I was actually able to join my math class via a little TV monitor. (Staying Connected program) They were taking a test and I really wasn't sure about what it was on so I just kinda played with the machine and looked around at the class. (Haha being sure to zoom in on Sheldon a few times =])

Never can say this too many times...Thank you to everyone who is keeping me in your thoughts and prayers!

Love you all!
Erin Renee

So, today was a day full of good news! It all started with the long awaited drop of the methotrexate level. Which is one step closer to going home but not quite yet.

Around 11:30, I had an MRI and the results of that were a lot better than I had expected. Actually, the tumor is almost totally gone! (barely visible by the doctors)

Now, this doesn't mean that my treatment is going to end early or anything but it is nice to know that all of this pain and suffering is paying off.

Last but not least, I will be able to come home when I am ready but that means that my next treatment will be delayed a few days. Oh well! I'd rather get away for a few days and be home.

I would like to thank all of you again for keeping me in your thoughts and prayers, because I 100% believe that it is helping me get through this.

Love you lots!

Recently, "why?" is my favorite question. Why is my metholtrexate level rising? Why do I still have burning rashes? Just WHY???!!!! And no one has any type of answer....

Everything is going just the same as mentioned in the last blog so I won't repeat my dad. But please keep me in your prayers everyone, and thank you for having me in your prayers.

Lots of love!!! Always and forever.

Hi everyone,
This message copied from copied from johnandloribeitz@gmail.

I wanted to send out this message to update anyone that might not be following Erin's website and I will also post this to the guest book and blog to try to reach as many people as I can. Please feel free to share this with anyone that may you feel may be interested and please share Erin's website address with anyone that might want to keep up on Erin's progress or post a message. The website is www.erinbeitz.com.

Erin has been in the hospital now for 13 days and it does not look like we will be out for at least a couple more days. Erin has been having a very severe reaction to one of the chemo drugs and that is why we are still here. She has received multiple blood transfusions and platelets as well and her white blood cell count bottomed out on Thursday and she has be battling fevers since then. She has been on constant antibiotics to ward off infection and so far that is working. Erin is supposed to start her next round of chemo on Friday but that may be delayed if she does not recover enough by then, she is also scheduled for an MRI this week to check her progress and we will let you all know when we get the results.

I want to mention the fundraisers that were held this week and the tremendous turnout that each one had. Nadine Vandewalker organized the Pampered Chef party on Thursday and from what I hear it was a huge success. We want to thank everyone that was involved with the planning/set-up and running of the event and of course all of the people that purchased items either at the event or on line. The second event was the dodge ball tournament that was organized by Chris VanMeter and held at Heidi Hazens softball facility, where Erin used to train. This event was also a huge success and thanks to all of the people involved with the event and all of the participants. I was able to attend the dodge ball tourn. for a little while and it overwhelming to see all of the people that came out to support Erin and our family and Lori was able to go to the show on Thursday and said the same thing.

One thing we would like to stress is that while we very much appreciate all of the fundraising that is going on and all of the gifts, money or otherwise that we have received the most important thing is all of the thoughts and prayers that are being said for Erin's recovery. The money raised will all go to Erin's care now and in the future but the thoughts and prayers and good wishes from all of you and from people we don't even know are what is going to heal Erin. I could see it at the dodge ball and I am certain that it was there at the Pampered Chef as well, that while the intent of the events is to raise money, that is secondary to the real reason that people come out and that is to support Erin. The love that I felt in the room for Erin was amazing and that is what will carry us and Erin through all of this long after these events are over. Once again I want to thank everyone involved with the success of both of these events and all of the participants.

LOVE AND GOD BLESS ALL OF YOU

John and Lori

My mom just showed up here at the hospital and told me about how much fun everyone is having and I am so upset that I wasn't able to make it. I hope that everything is still going well and I hope it continues to go well! Thank you to everyone who participated in playing and working!!

Sorry guys....but Sheldon, I hope your team dominates!

Love you all!

At this point, I am not even in good enough shape to go home. I have now received four units of blood and that gives me more energy so that I am not sleeping all day but for some reason, the 'rashes' or 'burns' that I have just don't want to go away.

It seems like forever now, but things will get better soon.

I love you guys!

Chemo medicine is horrible. Still at hospital and am planning on being here for probably a couple of more days. I will keep everyone updated on my condition and will post a new blog as soon as I get home.

LOVE YOU ALL!

pain medicine and lotion really seem to be doing the trick. But the doctor wants me to stay even if my levels are better. Umm...I don't think that that idea is going to go over too well. I am going to do all that I can to get out of here asap! The only problem is my levels still aren't great so I can't get my way out of that...darn it!

Love you all!
Erin Renee

So today my hands are better but I am still not feeling too great, I just want to sleep all of the time. I just hope that soon I can get home and start feeling better again. It is so difficult to feel good when you are stuck at the hospital. Soon I should be home and I will be sure to update all of you as soon as that happens!

Love you,
Erin