Peyton will be having surgery to take out her port.
Last week at her clinic appointment, I was so excited to see her counts rebounding and to have that proof in my hand that her body was truly recovering from the treatment that I totally forgot to update about her non-fuctioning port.
Grrrrr.
That port.
For those that [...]

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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 oh-so-special moment [...]

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To each one of you who offered up the “fetus inhabitation” theory on my illness…may the fleas of a thousand camels infest your armpits!
As my baby factory is closed, there will be no more junior Mayhews coming down the assembly line…and if there are there will be some serious lawsuits in our future.
AND I will [...]

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When I first started taking my family to a support group for pediatric cancer, I didn’t know what I was getting myself into.  I had no idea that within months I was going to feel like this was my second family.  It was a foreign concept to think that we would find ways to laugh [...]

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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 location that has [...]

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