Trienie and I together with the three boys were invited by Reach for a Dream to go watch AFRIKAANS IS GROOT!!!

What another great concert, everybody enjoyed themselves...

All the kids love music, Stefan plays guitar and Rohan definitely thinks he is a singer of note!! It was funny though that at 10PM they were all fast asleep while mommy and daddy was watching the end of the show. I do not think that any of us are used to going out on a "school night"!

It was great fun, the kids will never forget it and we have some great memories with them being with us.

Thank you to the wonderful people at Reach for a Dream, you have become part of our extended family and we really appreciate your support.

The Sunflower Fund had their annual Bikers4Bandana day on Sunday 19 October. We wanted to support this initiative and also joined in on the ride. Our group of friends decided to meet for breakfast at Countless Ours before the ride started. Thank you Cobus for arranging breakfast!

All the bikers met at the Shell Ultra City in Samrand and from there we departed to Monte Casino to attend the Bierfest. This was my first ride in a group and I did not know what to expect!! Luckily we had some experienced riders with us and they made it very easy for us.

At the end of the day it was a lot of fun, but more important it was for a very good cause.

Thank you to my fellow riders: Julius, Janet, Roger, Kobus, Karen, Pieter and Francois. We will do it again very soon.

Stefan had his regular check-up this past weekend. His blood was drawn again to determine the blood and platelet counts.

There was some good news and some news we expected but hoped to prolong a bit more. I thought it would be a good idea to show his results below:

His results are shown for the last year in the above image. The bloodcounts looked good, and increased marginally. This was probably due to his medication, and is at the lower ranges of what it should be. The problem is with his platelet count. It reduced from 24 to 19. Normal platelet counts are between 150 and 450, and you can see that it is only 10% of what it should be.

In May the levels were 16 and Stefan recevied a platelet transfer. You can find the news article that was published at that stage. His levels are moving to that level again and is something that would have to be monitored carefully.

Based on the results above our oncologist informed us that he activated the search for a bone marrow donor. So, the time has come and the process has started.

Another preliminary search will be done on the local donor list. We looked at the previous search results and the doctor explained to us some things that we were not aware of. There were six possible matches the last time, of which two will be eliminated immediately due to ethnic incompatability. Of the four that remained, they were all female. He explained to us that statistically it is proven that a transplant has a higher success rate if the donor is the same gender.

Hopefully there are some new donors that have registered since the last search was done because we need a young man this time!!!

He also said that our best chance for a good match would probably come from a fairly young male donor from Germany. We will wait for the new search results and keep the news updated.

Let's all hope and pray for the right donor. Thank you for all your support during this time, we are very positive and know that everything will work out fine.

The Greeff family

Stefan, our boy. You turned eight today and we are so blessed to have had you for these years. You are our little angel and we love you to bits. May you be spared for many more years to come. Our biggest wish is to have you grow up to be man and live a happy life.

Enjoy your gift!! He received a Fender Bullet Stratocaster electric guitar. It is your passion my boy, we love seeing you play...