We have so many of our special friends in the hospital right now…Sierra’s in with pneumonia, Sam is there with uncertain chest xrays and a fever, Baby Leo is in for an undetermined fever, and Mathew is starting his first round of chemo to get him in to remission. I also got news of [...]

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Fear.
When Peyton was diagnosed, our greatest emotion was fear. Fear of the unknown, the uncertainty, the “what if” of it all. We were afraid of the cancer, the treatment, the outcome, the dangers, and the possibilities.
Fear is something that we’ve learned to live with. Both great and small, the fears that we [...]

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Word just came that Mathew Gliddon has relapsed.
Please just raise Mathew up in prayer, keep his family in your thoughts as they start down this uncertain path.
f.r.o.G…fully relying on God
–Anissa

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Our friends Karen and Mat Gliddon are supposed to get results today on a bone marrow aspirate done yesterday. Their son Mathew has the same kind of leukemia as Peyton, he’s done the same higher risk protocol and had the same cranial radiation treatment.
Two weeks ago they began holding Mathew’s chemo because his counts weren’t [...]

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Peyton had her monthly chemo trip to the clinic where I had to confess the ultimate sin of a cancer mom. Last night at dinner I put Peyton’s chemo on her dinner plate, 1 pill of 6MP and 5 pills of Methotrexate. After getting up to swap out the washer and dryer I [...]

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