So long, Virginia! We will miss you all dearly!

Hello All! Our respite in Virginia is sadly coming to a close. 😕 While the world has been on freakout mode due to this pandemic (and rightly so), we have been appreciating the solace of the mountains and enjoying the company or our incredibly generous hosts, Jane, Jim, Ian and Luke. How will we ever be able to adequately thank them? It's an impossible question with an impossible answer. Nothing will ever be enough.

Many have asked what our return to St, Jude will be like. We weren't sure ourselves until earlier this week, but for us, it will look like this: We roll out of Virginia tomorrow morning and arrive back in Memphis Saturday. A 14-day quarantine is required for all returning patients and their caregiver (only one is now allowed). For most, that would be a stay in the on-campus, short-term, hotel-type housing where confinement to the room, apart from appointments will be in order. 😳 Luckily, for us, we are being afforded a unique option we have available to us, thanks to yet another very dear and generous friend J Racquel Collins-Milinkovich. Her old house, staged to sell, has just gone on the market, but we are being allowed to self-quarantine in it until Zane clears COVID tests incoming and at 2 weeks. At that time, we will then transfer back to the Crosstown Concourse building we were in before. We are over the moon that St. Jude is allowing us to quarantine in a home, where we can enjoy a backyard and have a bit of elbow room. And the good news is there will be no postponement in treatment. We will be able to go to all appointments during the quarantine period.

Life is good. Keep safe and stay healthy, everyone.

So long (for now) to our Virginia friends. We will miss you all. You’ve been so good to us. We don’t want to leave, but it’s time to continue to #MakeZaneBetter. Thanks for the goodbye visits yesterday! See you all again as quickly as we can! Xo