May 2010

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Round 4

Well here we are, back at Sick Kids for round 4 of antibody therapy. This week Reese just gets IL-2 (a drug to help increase Reese’s white blood counts) on a continuous drip for 96 hours. Before you bust out your calculators that’s 4 days. Things were humming along just fine for 2 hours and [...]

Osteopath

Reese had a check up yesterday, blood work and physical, and all looks really good. Reese’s platelets are a whopping 97. Woo-hoo come on triple digits!!! Reese is in fine fighting form for the next round starting on Monday. And this is what I call the Shit Round. It’s the two-weeker that completely beat her [...]

Behind the Blog

Ahhhhh, so behind, so behind, so behind! I know it’s been too long between posts. It’s just one of those things: when we’ve got time off I try to not think about cancer, treatment, what’s working, what’s not, etc. It’s impossible not to think about it entirely, but I have a pretty good knack at [...]

Back Home

We busted out of the joint on Friday evening and as always it’s nice to be home! It was a really good week all things considered. Jon and I have spent a good part of the weekend just standing and staring at Reese as she bops around the house, running in circles and clapping her [...]

One Year Anniversary

Today, May 13th is the one year anniversary of Reese’s diagnosis. And what a looooong year it’s been. A full 365 days completely consumed by cancer. It’s all cancer, cancer, cancer, fucking cancer. But when I think back to all the things we’ve been through: 6, make that 7 rounds of chemo, surgery, a stem [...]