Posts under ‘living in the aftermath’

**UPDATE!  Have returned from clinic with wonderful, beautiful, amazingly good counts, so my fears have been relieved for now.  I know that this isn’t the end of all my crazy, but it does mean I’m good for another month.  As if PMS wasn’t bad enough.* Last night scary things happened in my house. Peter and [...]

“I think I’d like to shave my head for Peyton.” Thousands of people are participating in St. Baldricks events around the country.  Shaving their heads in honor of children who’ve batttled cancer, raising money for life-saving research.  If you’re interested in participating or attending a St. Baldricks event, you can get more information about one [...]

Tuesday night Peyton got up on stage again and strutted her formidable THANG down the runway for the Fashion Funds the Cure event, benefiting the Pediatric Cancer Foundation. *hint: if you want the video on the FFTC link, you may see last year’s runway performance and  just tear up the teeny tiniest bit* Last year, [...]

Much has happened this week, between conflict with the boy child for his repeated choice to be a complete mushbrain and getting the awesome invitation to join a phenomenal team of bloggers as a Race and Ethnicity channel editor for Blog Nosh magazine (more coming soon about that)…but, in all honesty, it’s all sort of [...]

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 [...]