Posts from ‘September, 2007’

Here is my issue.
Peyton is growing a fantastic head of hear, it’s coming in thick, dark and it’s actually laying flat!

However, the hair growth isn’t limited to her head. It appears to be growing with wild abandon on her ears, back and neck. She is starting to resemble a [...]

This has never really been an issue for me personally, but apparently being so darn cute people can’t stand it keeps your schedule pretty full.
We have the Cure Kids Cancer Challenge on the 29th.
We’ve found out that Peyton is going to be a Hero of Honor for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society [...]

Peyton is in love with her best friend Adelaine. And one thing that she always comments on is Adelaine’s endless supply of “hair pretties”. Adelaine now has a full head of sunny blond waves and Angela makes sure to decorate that beautiful head with a bow or ribbon of some sort.
Grandma Sharon provided [...]

Yesterday’s clinic visit brought good and less than good news. Peyton’s platelet count and hemoglobin were both really good, but her ANC (that lovely number that tells us her ability to fight off infection) dropped down to 500. 500 and lower puts her in risk range for getting sick, so we’ll have to [...]

As my mother loves to remind me, one of the first phrases I learned to translate was to tell her that the people at the orphanage would tell me to “be still, go to sleep”. We were laughing about it tonight. It seemed to be so mean to say that to a little [...]