On January 26th, 2012 our daughter Zaynab was diagnosed with Leukemia. Although we were initially shocked, we realized that we were not alone. So many friends and family immediately stepped up and are supporting us in so many different ways. We feel truly blessed. In light of how blessed we are we wanted to accomplish a few things with this blog. One is to keep everyone informed of Zaynab's recovery. A second is to help those who are less fortunate.

As we thought about what charities to support we thought of a few and couldnt decide on one, so we thought we would give people a choice.

1) Something as simple as water for those who are less fortunate. No one in this world should be without water. Nancy helped setup this initiative here: http://bit.ly/xfXbRS and we have a goal of $20,000 which will provide over 1000 people with water.

2) What a wonderful world this would be if we were able to wipe cancers like Leukemia / Lymphoma from the face of the world. Nancy has mobilized a team to participate in the Light the Night walk on October 20th 2012 and we have a goal of $50,000! To donate to LLS and join the effort go here: http://bit.ly/yZwbt7

3) Who better to receive support than orphans. GiveLight has been great organization for supporting orphans worldwide. While we have no goal set, we recognize that it does not take very much money to save a child: http://bit.ly/xKpWv2


Thanks for continuing to keep us in your thoughts and prayers!

Thanks,
Zaynab and Family

Sunday, April 1, 2012

Back Home

Salam

Just a quick update. Late last Thursday, Zaynab was discharged from the hospital. Her blood counts were low but high enough where they felt it was ok to come back home.

She spent the weekend at home and she seems to be doing ok. No fever so that's a good thing. We will be doing more blood counts on Monday to determine when she can restart the chemo treatments. Hopefully she will be able to restart sometime this coming week. That's all for now.

Salam
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  1. EemanApril 9, 2012 at 9:53 PM

    Salam Zaynab

    Glad to hear that you are back at home.
    We are all thinking of you and counting the days until we can see you.
    We love you.

    Rifaat, Eeman, Faatimah, Sarrah, and Bayan

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