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 [...]
Posts under ‘the cancer life’
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. [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
