Posts under ‘side effects’

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 [...]

Ok, fasten your seat belts because this is a letter that I’m sending RIGHT.THIS.SECOND. Dear Locks Of Love, HOW dare you? After hearing that multiple requests for wigs from your organization were rejected because you “prefer” to give your products to kids with long-term hair loss ONLY, I am not only angry, but frustrated and [...]

So, it used to be that Peyton’s biggest worries were that Dora would get erased from Tivo before she got a chance to watch it and that Nathaniel and Rachael might get more than her. More of what? Who knows or cares, but if they got more of it, it was going to blow her [...]

For those of you who don’t listen to country music, there is a beautiful and heartbreaking song by a band Rascal Flatts called “Skin”. It’s about a teenage girl who gets Leukemia and loses her hair and it’s always been a song that’s touched my heart, but never so much as this morning. When I [...]