Wisconsin is sooooooooooo Beautiful!!!
We were greeted by 3 support groups in Wisconsin: Madison, Milwaukee and Racine.
Rob and Sue Enright arranged for all 3 groups to meet at the Timberlee Conference Center in East Troy, Wisconsin; an incredible property of over 600 acres! Their daughters, Michelle and Megan gave people a tour of the property on golf carts! Thanks Girls!!
Chuck & Pat Koval, support group leaders of the Madison group brought along delicious box lunches for all. Judith Hartig-Osanka of the Racine support group just returned from vacation and her flight just arrived on time to join us! We enjoyed meeting and chatting with everyone and discussed all aspects of myeloma from initial diagnosis to transplant preparation to novel therapies. These 3 groups are incredibly knowledgeable and were very thankful for the Myeloma Mobile visiting! Michael and Ally closed the evening by singing his song, "I'm Not Leavin" which was quite emotional. Thanks to Mary Burke for giving Ally some advice about College! Ally will be a freshman in high school this September and Mary was certainly helpful with her experience as a high school guidance counselor!
The group gave us a goodie bag loaded with specialties from Wisconsin; like cheese, summer sausage, a Wisconsin magnet, cow pies, and lots of other goodies that we've already eaten! :-) They were also nice enough to give us a postcard with what else on it but Wisconsin Cows to remember them by! We will never forget our visit with Wisconsin! Thanks for all your hospitality!
The Tuohys and the Kovals
The next day, Chuck & Pat Koval mentioned that they wanted to meet with us about noon because they had a little something lined up with the media...well you can all see for yourselves the "little something" by clicking on the link below. We had no idea what we were doing - but it sure was fun and I hope creates myeloma awareness! Thanks Chuck for your determination in getting the word out!
Our thoughts and prayers are with Rob & Sue Enright as Rob prepares for a stem cell transplant this Fall.
We are next off to Rochester, MN for an Event at the Mayo Clinic!
By for now!
Robin