Samantha was discharged last night from CHOP

Samantha was discharged last night from CHOP. She will be going to the clinic with her Grandpa Seip two times a week and getting her meds at home. Samantha is at her dad's this week with her brother and will be back home to my house next Sunday. She is doing well and is eating well!!!! We are glad she did not have to be in the hospital for any longer period of time because now she can sleep in her bed and be a little more comfortable without nurses stopping in constantly. If you need to reach me, I can be reached at 267-918-8895-cell.We have a long road ahead of us but we take day by day and following her regimen of meds is what we have to do until she is cured of this illness. She will probably be back in school in a few weeks but for now she will be at Brandon's or my house!!! until next time-April:)

Samantha Tomascik's Up-date

October 05, 2007 at 08:50 AM EDT
Good Morning!!!Samantha may be released from CHOP today depending on her calcium levels but we won't know more until later this afternoon. The good news if I didn't tell you in the last update is the bone marrow aspiration results came back with GREAT results. The vast majority of leukemia cells are gone so that is GREAT NEWS!!!!!!! She will be going to outpatient treatment here three days a week with her grandfather, and then resume her meds at home. She is in good spirits and is eating very good these days. We are very happy with the results considering this has been a tremendous chaotic two weeks. She will be at her dad's the first week coming home and then will come home with me. We are planning to steam clean our rugs and organize the house a little better for her arrival back home. until next time, Love April:)))))

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Bad News regarding Sharon Page's granddaughter

Hi Everyone,

I just learned that my granddaughter , Samantha, was just diagnosed with Leukemia (Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia) known as ALL. 80% of childhood leukemias are this All . All treatments will go over a two year period and I hope she can beat it. Please pray for her as the next several months will be very tough but she is a fighter and they have come so far in treating childhood leukemia. I will try to keep everyone posted on her progress. The Blog is a great idea to keep everyone informed . Love, Cousin Sharon Page

Sa mantha Tomascik, age 5
Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia
3 Central room 3423
34th Street & Civic Center Blvd.
Phila, Pa. 19104
267-426-3396

Pop Mooney Anniversary

Dear Family:

Just wanted to get the word out that Pop Mooney will be celebrating a Golden Anniversary next June 20th - his parting from this world to his Heavenly reward. I have reserved a Memorial Mass for himself to be offered @ 5:15 pm on that date (a Friday) at Our Lady Star of the Sea, the parish he helped build.

I think it would be a wonderful tribute to his life and legacy for as many of his decendents as are able to attend. Speaking of Golden Anniversaries, Pat and Chris Hatch celebrated their 50th Wedding Anniversary Saturday, Sept. 8. If you would like to send them congratulations, their address is: 14554 Spyglass St., Orlando, Fl 32826.

Finally, thank you to Jackie and Paul for making this blog available. I hope to be an active participant once Stephanie and I are settled after the sale of our house, 9/21. Our temp. address will be 443 S. Spruce St., Galloway, NJ 08205. My cell: 609-602-7182. By the way, if you attended our wedding, it was 10 years ago, 8/23/07.

My, how fleeting is our time on this earth! However, the Good News reminds us, that our focus should always be on our permanent home - Time Eternal - where Patrick, Nellie and all our beloved departed are waiting to celebrate with us a family reunion that will never end.

God Bless all!

1994 Ireland Trip

I just added a folder to the Mooney Family Album called Ireland-1994.
It contains about 193 pictures from a two week trip some family members took to Ireland in June of 1994. To get to the pictures, you need to scroll to the bottom http://www.rahul.net/jsutton/mooney/ of the Mooney Family album and you will see the folder. Just click the folder and the pictures will appear.
Paul Farrell organized this trip and the whole crew was, Paul Farrell, Tommy and Nancy Farrell, Nancy’s mom Elva Alexander, Eddie (Rock) and Donna Mooney, Barbara Mooney, TP Murray, John Murray, Mike Mooney, Sharon Sutton, Jack Sutton, Mary Clark, Courtney Clark, and Mary’s friend Robbie (sorry I don’t know her last name). We all left from Philadelphia Airport on June 1st 1994.
We landed in Shannon on June 2nd 1994 and rented a Volkswagen bus and a sedan for our transportation. We generally made a counter clockwise trip around Ireland visiting well know cities and locations such as Limerick, Tralee, Dingle, Ring of Kerry, Cork, Killarney, Waterford, Kilkenny, Tipperary and Dublin. From Dublin, several of us, TP, John, myself and perhaps Coutrney made a day trip to Northern Ireland and Belfast.
From Dublin we cut cross country to Donegal, then down to Galway with a day boat trip to the Aran Island of Inishmore. We finished down the west coast past the Cliffs of Moher and back to Shannon for our return flight to Philadelphia on June16, 1994.
Paul did an excellent planning job on this as our whole itinerary was mapped out in detail and all B&B’s were booked in advance. Well done lad.
The pictures are in some sort of order following our trip plan, some however are guesses to exact location. I hope everybody can see and enjoy the pictures.

Hello from Cambridge Maryland

Hi All,

Great idea for this blog. I am in the end part of getting my Irish passport. It has taken a long time, but hopefully I should have it soon. The good news is that in using a service for this, they have come up with GrandPa Mooneys birth cert. So if anyone wants a copy let me know. When I get it I will forward on.
I have my own hair salon here, and Mary[know to you as Mary Ellen] runs the place. We are expanding fro 750 sf to 2400 sf, which will take place in the winter.
My son Justin is 24 now and has a son Shane 3. Any of you who have grandkids know how wonderful that is.
Glad to catchup with all my family.
Elizabeth