Day Two

July 24, 2008 - After a sleepless night for Pete and Vicki (consisting of watching infomercials and playing gin rummy among other things), the three of us met with Bob and his Nurse practioner Ann Ressing, at the National Cancer Institute at Children's Hospital, where after more films and a lot of personal attention, Bob sat with the three of us and told and showed us what we were looking at in Mattie's arm. Later that day at 3pm, Pete, Vicki and Mattie met with Dr. Jeff Toretsky, a distinguished researcher and leading doctor of Pedriatric Hematology/Oncology Doctor at the Lombardi Cancer Center at the Georgetown University Hospital, who was not only astonished at how quickly we went from initial detection to sitting in front of him, but turned out to be a great doctor who was part of a wonderful practice at the Lombardi Center, led by Dr. Aziza Shad.