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Three years

Today marks three years to the day that Peyton was diagnosed with Leukemia.
Our most craptastic anniversary.
Over the past 36 months, I’ve kept a Bible verse in the header of this site.
It was three years ago TODAY that verse came into my life.
I was curled up in one of those awesomely comfortable hospital chairs *snort*, just [...]

My little SuperGirl!

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. My kid is that awesome!!

A guilty mother’s work is never done

My worries about Peyton’s upcoming clinic visit and my excitement about the upcoming trip to Chicago for BlogHer collided in my dreams.
I dreamed that she relapsed and I couldn’t go on my trip. I was suddenly plunged back into the world of chemotherapy and treatment and being a fulltime nurse and you know what I [...]

In Memoriam

Father’s Day….a day to send love to my father, Peter’s father, and Pete…to grandfathers and uncles, cousins and friends.
But also a day to send love to some other fathers I love who will be hurting on this day…this day made bittersweet by the loss of one who made this day special.
To Mat, Danny, Dave, Dirk, [...]

Reminders are everywhere

“I HATE this game!!”
I *would* say that such vehement declarations are a rarity in my house, but I think that we all know that the child of the person who once told a stranger at Target that if she didn’t stop staring at my bald kid, I’d rip out her eyes and choke her with [...]