Happy Thanksgiving

This time of the year especially, we are reminded to voice what we're thankful for. My heart is so full of thanks that I just have to blog it to all of you.
I am most thankful for my amazing wife Kelly. We are, without a doubt, going through this together. She is dealing with all of this so well and I cherish our relationship and admire her abilities to hold our world together. Then there's our darling son Garrett. My life changed when he came along. He's turning one next week and already walks, plays the air guitar and dances every time he hears music. What a rock star!
Family is the most important thing in the world to me. I have been so fortunate to have my family around me every step of the way. My parents have made countless trips from Phoenix to be by my bedside, fundraisers and events.
My sister Tiffany has done so much including setting up this blog and fielding every email, call that comes through it. Not to mention traveling to attend and help manage the events. Tiff, you rock!
My sister TJ who's been on bed rest with her second child who has called or emailed me just about everyday with love and support. She also handmade all those cool orange purse and cell phone charms and jewelry that so many of you now own.
I am so lucky to have the best in laws in the world too. My Mom in law has been so helpful with Garrett and my home care by pushing water on me, making me meals and taking my temp. Patty, thank you so much for your love and help!
Hillary, Kelly's sister is living with us and is so helpful with Garrett. I appreciate her so much and can't thank her enough for all she does for us.
I am thankful for all my friends who are so involved with helping us with fundraisers, meals, love and prayers. Kelly and I are so grateful for all the people doing so many wonderful things for us on a daily basis.
I must tell every one of the kids that I have coached or taught over the years how much I miss you. You are the reason I do what I do. I love working with kids and I really miss being a part of their lives as I go through this. It's gonna be a while still, but I will be back and we will pick up where we left off!
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!

Getting closer to transplant-City of Hope

Kelly and I visited City of Hope last week and met the team that will be helping me through transplant. We were so impressed with the staff and facility. I will be in good hands for sure. The plan is...one more round of chemo at Hoag this month then off to COH for one last round of chemo and a dose of full body radiation. At that point I will be ready for transplant. Of course we have to find a donor match but the doctors are hopeful we will find it on the registry. The search is going on right now so get on the registry! I will be at COH for about 4 months while being closely monitored. They tell me it will be about a year after transplant and I will be able to start working again and get on with my life. Yeah!

Todd Rockin' Leukemia Golf Scramble

There is going to be a golf scramble for Todd on the 12th of December in Scottsdale Arizona.

Please follow this link for the details https://acrobat.com/#d=ct8eZY7VyA9j-8BLh5ou5g

Click here for a registration form that you can print out and mail in.

We hope to see you there!

Questions? Contact Sandra at sandrafosberg@yahoo.com

Blood and Marrow Drive for Todd

Sue Lips has put together a blood and bone marrow drive for Todd on the 15th of December at Brywood Elementary School from 8:30- 2:30. If you still want to get on the bone marrow registry, now is your chance!

The great thing about this drive is that the blood collected will go straight to Todd.

Please come support a great cause. You will save a life! Thank you to Sue for all her hard work!!!!!

Brywood Elementary School

1 WestwoodIrvine, CA 92620

(949) 936-5500

Questions? Contact Sue Lips at susanlips@hotmail.com

Good News For Kids

A BIG thank you to all who helped with the Good News benefit. It was such a great night and so fun to be together. Here are some photos of the evening...



IMA kids rocked!!!!

Honoring Todd!

Dad, Mom, Todd and Tiffany (we missed you Tyler and Tina)
~Tiffany

Getting ready for round 3

I was surprised when my doctor let me come home so early after round two. I was expecting to be in the hospital several weeks but it ended up only being a week. He was confident I could recover at home just as well. That made me happy. Any chance I can spend with my family I'll take it! (plus my bed at home is a lot more comfortable)

Unfortunately, we found out that my sister Tiffany is not a Bone Marrow match. That made her sad....Tiffany, don't worry, I still love you ; ) My other sister TJ will be tested and we'll see if she's a match. If not, we'll go to the National Bone Marrow Registry. Have you registered yet?? My doctor said it is common that siblings don't always match but you find one on the registry. Please register! You may save a life. Maybe even mine. There's some bragging rights for you.

I got the staples out of my head last week and it's healing nicely. The Ommaya reservior will stay in forever so I'll always have a little bump on my noggin. Oh well, once my hair grows back you'll never know it's there.

After getting 3 units of platelets and 2 units of whole blood, my counts started climbing rapidly. That's a good thing. Thanx to all who have donated blood and platelets in my name. You rock! My doc says I'm doing great and I'm set to go in for round 3 on November 30th. I get to celebrate Thanksgiving and Garrett's first birthday at home. Woo hoo!!

A huge thanx to everyone involved in the incredible fundraisers thus far. We are so humbled at how amazing our community is. We love and appreciate all of you who are helping us through this tough time. We could not do it without you all.

Jewelry for Todd

Lisa Gottschalk was one of the vendors at Toddstock and she sells Cookie Lee jewelry. She has offered to extend the Toddstock giving until Todd is DONE with his Chemo treatments. This is a very generous offer as she is giving back almost all of the proceeds (minus the shipping costs only) she receives from Todd Supporters.

Lisa Gottschalk
Independent Cookie Lee Jewelry Consultant
www.CookieLee.biz/LisaGottschalk

714-915-2552
lisa4jewelry@aol.com
Thank you Lisa!
~Tiffany

IMA Concert

Please don't miss this awesome concert to support Todd! It is on November 18th at Pioneer Middle School. It is going to be so fun!!! Thank you Sean for putting this together. These kids are amazing...thank you for sharing your talent with us and in Todds behalf!!!
Click on the poster for all the details...

Our first Recycling day!

This is an email I received from Robin Edmond...

Over the weekend, Northwood Pointe had their first recyclable pick-up for Todd. On Saturday, we picked up cans plastics in over 80 homes on the Northwood Pointe side, and were able to raise $809 for the Larsen’s. As this is an on-going effort, we plan on having another pick-up in 2-3 weeks again. Please recycle your plastics and aluminum cans for this drive. We hope to continue to get the kids involved and have many more drives throughout 2009 and 2010. God Bless Todd!






This is so awesome!!! Thank you, thank you to everyone involved. Please sign up if you haven't already! Visit http://recycle.help-our-coach.org~Tiffany

Ommaya Reservoir

An Ommaya Reservoir is a small plastic device used to carry medicine to fluids in the brain and spinal cord. It also allows samples of cerebrospinal fluid (fluid around the brain and spinal cord) to be taken
for testing. I get one! So lucky!


Here I am as a mummy. Fitting for Halloween don't you think? This was the night before my surgery...

You can see the dots on my head where they attached the immobilizer during surgery.


Now chemo can be dropped straight into my brain and spine. The staples will come out in a couple weeks.

Good News for Kids!

The Good News for Kids annual Gala is on November 19th form 5:15 to 9:30 at the Grove Theater in Aneheim.
Todd is on the committee for this event and his bands play there every year. It is so fun and such a great cause. This year the benefit will include Todd. Please come and aid two great causes. The entertainment is stellar too! For more information please visit http://goodnewsforkids.org/gala/index.htm
I will see you there!
~TIffany

Recycling for Todd

After several weeks of planning, enlisting volunteers, and donors from Northwood Pointe, the Collecting Cans to Crush Cancer team is ready to do their first pick-up in Northwood Pointe on Saturday, November 7th at 8 am. If you have signed up to donate plastics and aluminum cans, please leave them in front of your house next Saturday morning. Please do your best to separate the plastics from the aluminum (and remember, no glass). Trucks will drive through each neighborhood to collect the donation and redeem it into Cash for the Larsens. Look for an email from Randy Gusikoski and Robin Edmond for more details, or click on their names here to email them.
If you haven’t signed up yet and would like to do so before our first pick-up, please go to http://recycle.help-our-coach.org/

As this effort continues, we’ll be doing recyclable pick-ups to help the Larsen family as Todd overcomes his fight with Leukemia. Thank you again to all our volunteers (almost all kids in our neighborhoods) who have joined this effort to help support the Larsen family.

~Tiffany

Thank You!!

All we can say is "WOW!" Todd and I are in total awe of our family, friends and community. Toddstock, the "Movie Night" and the Rock n' Splash Relay Bash were absolutely amazing! A huge THANK YOU to all who contributed to the events. We are humbled and honored by all of your love and support. I can't imagine where we would be without each and every one of you.
-Kelly