Pizza Hut benefit set for Havreite with cancer

Thursday, a third benefit will be held to support Havreite Eileen Viall and her family as she fights cancer over in Seattle.

Viall was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia in February and has been receiving treatment at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance since a few weeks after her diagnosis.

Viall and her husband, Monty, are living in the Pete Gross House, an apartment that provides cancer care patients with a sterile and isolated living environment, in downtown Seattle, while she recovers from her stem cell transfusion she received May 19.

She is now in her 100 days, which began on the day of the transfusion, where the patient needs to be monitored closely for problems including infections.

Viall's sister, Kate Kinsella, said Viall did have a hard time for a while after the transfusion so she was put in the hospital.

"She was on morphine and then she was put on steroids," she said, adding that Viall should be able to move back to her apartment soon.

Her parents talked to her recently, Kinsella said, and they said she is sounding better.

At the beginning of June, she added, Viall's children, Josh and Amanda, were able to go to Seattle and see their parents for their father's birthday.

"It was a great birthday," Kinsella said.

There have been two fundraisers over the past few months to help the Viall family's medical and living costs in Seattle, as well as bills they need to keep paying for their house here.

Kinsella added that her and her family are hoping to go visit Viall and her husband in Seattle at the end of July, but it depends on how Viall's immune system is doing.

"We are looking forward to having her home," she said.

The third fundraiser Thursday is at Pizza Hut. Any time a purchaser mentions Eileen Viall, Pizza Hut will donate 20 percent of the purchase price to Viall's account.

An account also is set up for Viall at Bear Paw Credit Union where people can donate to help with expenses.