Reinstra family receives doses of good news

Lying in a hospital bed while receiving a second round of chemotherapy hardly seems like a good fit for receiving good news.

But that was the case Monday for La Conner’s Ashlyn Reinstra, who learned then that her younger siblings, Erick and Addie, are positive matches for a pending bone marrow transplant.

Once the aggressive leukemia that sidelined Ashlyn – a former La Conner High soccer star who was playing on the Skagit Valley College women’s team when stricken last fall – is pushed into remission, she may begin the lengthy transplant process.

But, just like on the soccer pitch,...