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Entries from October 2008

The end is nigh!

October 29th, 2008 · 32 Comments

I’m sure you’re prepared for some sort of WOWZER! type post about the last day of clinic chemo.
I just don’t have it in me today.
It happened today, though.
Finally.
Port working on first try. Check.
Final Vincristine given safely. Check.
Peyton went happily to be anesthetized. Check.
Sort of wishing they’d anesthetized me as well. Check.
Final spinal tap administered. Check.
Final [...]

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Tags: Having faith · Mayhew niblets · Mom memoirs · Peyton · Peyton treatments · adventures at the clinic · chemotherapy · events and happenings · side effects · the cancer life

No final chemo and words likely to drive me over the edge to the dark place

October 28th, 2008 · 21 Comments

My heart raced when Peyton and I walked into the clinic this morning.
I mean PUMPING!
Possibly worse than the first time Peter and I walked in there with her, so fragile with dread.
I had myself worked up into a good frenzy.
I would see each procedure as the last.
The last time she would be having the chemo [...]

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Tags: Having faith · Mayhew niblets · Mom memoirs · Peyton · Peyton treatments · Steroids behaving badly · adventures at the clinic · chemotherapy · the cancer life

A picture tells a thousand stories

October 27th, 2008 · 10 Comments

Amazingly enough, by putting my memory card in my awesomely wonderful printer, I was able to save some of the pictures from this weekend….and some video of Britt that I think I might have promised NOT to post…or to post as soon as humanly possible…am unsure…is foggy.
Plus, I got the mackdaddysweet pictures from Izzy who [...]

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Tags: Mayhew niblets · Mom memoirs · We like to party · Who are these people · blogger stuff · events and happenings · i like to write · location location location · picture fun · these people are our friends · we are a little crazy

The friends who blog together, stay together…or at least they post every minute detail, embarrassing photo and incriminating video

October 27th, 2008 · 17 Comments

This is the pathway of destruction left in the wake of four bloggers taking Orlando by storm this weekend:
1. Two car wrecks in the first two minutes of hitting the road from Brandon….one on fire, one flipped over….I have had pictures **see #4 and you’ll know why you’re not seeing any of them.
2. One air [...]

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Tags: Mayhew niblets · Mom memoirs · We like to party · Who are these people · blogger stuff · i like to write · location location location · picture fun · these people are our friends · we are a little crazy

She’s quick, I’ll give her that

October 25th, 2008 · 9 Comments

The temperature was a FRIGID 73 degrees.
The fighting began the moment we got in the van.
Rachael wraps up in a blanket sitting in the back of the van.
Peyton counters by grasping the edge of the blanket and whipping it away from her.
Peyton snaps: It’s MINE!
Rachael whines : Mommmm, Peyton just grabbed that blanket that belongs [...]

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Tags: Mayhew niblets · Mom memoirs · Peyton · parenting is harder than it looks · rachael · things our kids do