Elaine Roberts Foundation
Ridding the World of Rhabdo and All Childhood Cancers

From Elaine's CaringBridge Site

Journal entry by Laura Roberts — 2/22/2016

I felt like I needed to put one last entry into CaringBridge.  It's been two weeks since Elaine went to be with Jesus and her dad in heaven.  As you can imagine it is very difficult for...

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Journal entry by Laura Roberts — 2/9/2016

This final journal entry is not being written by Laura. It is being written by someone who has been Laura's friend for more than 40 years.

Saturday, February 6, 2016, Elaine passed away. H...

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Journal entry by Laura Roberts — 1/27/2016

Elaine and I have been enjoying (extreme sarcasm) the last week at The Chilton and I expect we will be here several more days.  We have spent the better part of the month of January at T...

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Journal entry by Laura Roberts — 1/2/2016

2015 was a very painful year.  Since Elaine was diagnosed on May 14th with Alveolar Rhabdomyosarcoma we have been battling this aggressive cancer.  I have posted updates on this site alwa...

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Journal entry by Laura Roberts — 12/9/2015

It's been a while since I posted an update.  I apologize if you have been wondering how Elaine is doing.  Elaine has been doing well.  We had a great Thanksgiving.  Elaine felt good.  We...

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Journal entry by Laura Roberts — 11/7/2015

I apologize that it has been so long since the last update.  While grateful for the significant improvement in the foot, the new places in the hip and the regress in the shoulder did pul...

From Elaine's CaringBridge Site

Journal entry by Laura Roberts — 10/15/2015

Elaine had the PET Scan yesterday (Wednesday) and we sat down and talked with the doctor.  The results were not exactly what we had hoped but not entirely bad news.  The foot does not e...

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Journal entry by Laura Roberts — 10/13/2015

We had a snafu today with the PET scan.  No contrast was ordered so we had to reschedule the PET scan for tomorrow.  We did, however, get the results of the MRIs and the chest CT....

From Elaine's CaringBridge Site

Journal entry by Laura Roberts — 10/6/2015

A quick update from The Chilton. We will be rescanning next week. On Monday, October 12th Elaine will have a MRI of her foot, a MRI of her shoulder and a CT Scan of her lungs.  On Tuesda...

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Journal entry by Laura Roberts — 9/29/2015

It's Homecoming in Alabaster and that means a week filled with fun festivities.  Elaine was invited to the Homecoming Dance so we are taking a break from treatment this week so Elaine ca...