Peter amuses me in a special way when he asks me if I’m planning to blog. He’s been sitting here by my side for the better part of two weeks, experiencing every flu-induced moment of agony, living in the fumes of my sickness. What could I possibly blog about that he hasn’t experienced? Perhaps that [...]
Posts under ‘Peyton treatments’
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 [...]
One time I don’t want to party
I had this whole post planned about the “end of treatment party” or lack thereof. I even had it partially drafted. Everything I needed to say about this subject is totally encapsulated in the next sentences I’m going to type: Another friend’s child relapsed this week. A young man, eleven years out of treatment, was [...]
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 [...]
No final chemo and words likely to drive me over the edge to the dark place
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 [...]
