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len, an organizer of the Jessie Waites Fund.
And the news from Jessie’s doctors is equally heartening. Bone marrow and spinal fluid tests conducted last Friday show the leukemia is now in remission. Jessie’s quick response to the initial doses of chemotherapy and radiation improve her chances of beating the disease, the doctors say.
“But they estimate that the treatments will have to continue for 2-1/2 to three years before the leukemia could go into permanent remission,” said Susan Turner, another organizer of the fund. “That’s why Jessie’s friends are here trying to raise money to help with expenses — living expenses and treatment expenses that insurance doesn’t cover,” she said.
Friday’s dinner is the first of the money-making projects. Meals will be served from 5:30 to 9 p.m. at the Castleton Fire Hall tomorrow.
The menu includes lasagne, garlic French bread prepared by the bakers for The Inn at Little Washington, tossed salad, coffee and iced tea. Desserts and other beverages will be sold separately.
The Eclectics, Rappahannock’s acapella harmonizers, will sing, and Terry Waggoner and Vincent Day, who perform regularly at Sky land on the Skyline Drive, will strum dinner music. Scoggin, pastor of the Washington Baptist Church and former counselor to families struck by childhood cancer, will talk briefly about living with leukemia.
Tickets, at $6 for adults and $3 for children under 12, are available in advance from Brambles Cafe, The Rappahannock News office, Middle St. Gallery and Washington Video, or from organizers of the events and helping friends.
Tickets at the door are $7 for adults, $4 for children.
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