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Posts under ‘the cancer life’

Now I really have no excuse!

Blog and you shall receive. (Oh, hello, Frigidaire, I would love to be a Test Drive Mom, feel free to ask!!!) However, my granted wish may not be so full of the OOOOOHHHH, WHOA! factor, yet it does come with it’s own special brand of YAY! Because, I got boxes, yo!! Lots of boxes. Like, [...]

Leukemia for Dummies

You know, it’s been a while since I did this, but there has been a sudden influx of new readers who may not know what the big deal is about all the follow up angst I suffer with each monthly oncology visit for Peyton. So, here’s a quick “Cliff Notes to Peyton and Leukemia”. Peyton’s [...]

Do I have to have a reason?

Why do I blog?? It’s a question that’s been floating around, asking people to define the reasons what drives them to share so much of themselves to the Internet….to bare your soul to strangers.  It’s probably been floating around as long as people have been self-publishing their thoughts…long years before I ever started. I blog [...]

Peyton rocks the runway…again!

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, [...]

Anatomy of a nervous breakdown

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 [...]