I was going to write this whole post and leave a little added blurb about Peyton’s clinic visit today. But it deserved space all it’s own. Counts were INCREDIBLE!! Still cancer free. Possibly the best three words ever. I so want to get this made into a shirt for her to wear. EVERY. DAY. Yeah. [...]
Posts under ‘adventures at the clinic’
Anatomy of a nervous breakdown
Since the moment Peyton was diagnosed with Leukemia we were taught that everything in our lives depended on one piece of paper. Counts. It told us if she needed blood products. It told us how strong or weak her immune system was. It told us if her liver wasn’t working properly, if her body was [...]
Goodbye, our little friend…
Peyton will be having surgery to take out her port. Last week at her clinic appointment, I was so excited to see her counts rebounding and to have that proof in my hand that her body was truly recovering from the treatment that I totally forgot to update about her non-fuctioning port. Grrrrr. That port. [...]
Throwing some love our hospital’s way
For the first time, we walked into our hospital no longer in treatment. We are still under their care, but Peyton is no longer a “patient”. It felt good! We’ve had a love affair with our hospital and clinic from the start, and we never cease to be thankful that Peyton was diagnosed in a [...]
The end is nigh!
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 [...]
