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My beloved husband, i love you 💙😘

Joseph Lombardi Obituary April 14, 2026 - Cannon Funeral Home View Joseph Lombardi's obituary, send flowers, find service dates, and sign the guestbook.

Good morning everyone,
many of you have asked how my husband Joe is doing. Joe was in the hospital for total of 77 days and on Friday we are happy to say he finally got to go home! Although this is a difficult journey, we continue to stay positive and take each day as it comes. He still has a long road ahead, but we are grateful to be able go home for a little while.

Two weeks ago Joe had another bone biopsy. That test unfortunately showed 20% still of leukemia cells which means another cycle of chemo along with chemo pills.

We are hoping that this cycle will work on the remaining leukemia cells. There is also a possibility of a clinical trial the doctors may want Joe to participate in before transplant if his Leukemia cells do not go below 5%.

Joe’s leukemia cells need to go below 5% before the doctors will start the process of preparing him for a stem cell transplant which will bring us back to Boston for about a month or so.

In the meantime, Joe will be doing outpatient treatments and will be traveling back to Boston once a week! Joe’s at a high risk for infection and his immune system is highly compromised which means we must be extremely careful and Joe is not able to leave our home but for his treatments. Please continue to send good vibes and prayers that this chemo round will work!

We are so grateful for the amazing care from all the doctors and nurses here at Dana Farber. They are incredible and always made sure Joe was ok. They were very attentive to him and he had the best team! Thank you so much!

This entire process has been overwhelming for the both of us and I wanted to take time to thank all of our family and friends for your tremendous supoort, generosity and prayers.

Special thank you’s to my niece Mikeala and her husband Pat for opening their home to me and allowing me to stay there while traveling back-and-forth to Boston.

To my girlfriend, Linda for your tremendous support and help with everything, her daughter Rachel who created our go fund me page my cousins (my sisters) for your generosity and support, my brother Claud and Sister-In-Law Joanne, Mike Keegan for helping me with repairs to get my home ready for Joe to come home. Joe Dannhardt you were my angel for doing our sheet rock! We are so grateful for all the time you all donated and your hard work I couldn’t have done it without all of you! It was so unbelievable!!

Thank you all so very much we are so blessed to have all of you behind us we truly are so grateful for all of you!❤️🙏🏻

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