Hope4Peyton

Holiday Homecomings

AnissaM — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:30:31 +0000

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 [...]

When bloggers slack…

AnissaM — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:29:49 +0000

How to be a good blogger. First, you don’t fill a whole post with nothing but pictures because you just cannot put one more word on the Internet without drinking at least a gallon of coffee and eating a pecan pie…not a piece…the whole thing. Thus, I give you: Spaceship…rocket…shiny…fire…boom! OH! I can’t stand it…she is going to break [...]

You might be wondering where I went….

AnissaM — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:00:45 +0000

…although that stinks to high heaven of a metric ton load of ego. It does make me feel warm and fuzzy to think that you had a “whoa” moment (FYI - said in a total Keanu Reeves voice, not the Joey Lawrence voice) when you realized ALERT ALERT, BLOG DOWN! and were sad for just a [...]

Delusions of teaching skill = FAIL!

AnissaM — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 10:30:13 +0000

Yeah. I may have ruined any chance they had of getting into an Ivy League school. EVER. Vot-tech, here we come. a2a_linkname="Delusions of teaching skill = FAIL!"; a2a_linkurl="http://www.hope4peyton.org/2008/delusions-of-teaching-skill-fail/";

I am made of tired

AnissaM — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:30:42 +0000

Update on mom: she is much better, she is now home and improving daily, the blood clots in her legs and lungs are apparently starting to dissolve as she is noticing a big difference in her ability to breathe. A good thing, no? I’m staying in Daytona for a while to be home health care [...]

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Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600

For the PETA Lover in Your Life
Have a PETA lover in your life? Impress them with this. Seriously. You can't go wrong.
Anorexia - the gift that keeps on giving...
Craftastrophes, funniest new site on the interwebs, peeps!

Updates from the mentally battered

AnissaM — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:00:26 +0000

Ok. Ya’ll? LOVE YOU! Mom is doing much better…her meds appear to be working (although the doctor’s refuse to do more tests, calling them “unneccessary” and expect her to just “know” that the clots are passing because she’ll “feel better”…MEH! I want tests!)…she is actually FEELING BETTER…and my sister drove down with three of her four daughters and [...]

I’m not ready

AnissaM — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 18:30:19 +0000

Posting may be light in the next few days as I am out of town with my mom and dad. Friday night my mom was diagnosed with multiple pulmonary embolisms, blood clots in her legs and lungs. VEEEERY bad news. She was recently in a pedestrian accident when a woman didn’t realize her car wasn’t in park [...]

Throwing some love our hospital’s way

AnissaM — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:00:49 +0000

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 [...]

The fewer words said, the better

AnissaM — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:00:59 +0000

Once upon a time… There was a sweet little girl who liked to read. And because she likes to get in character, she started wearing this bonnet everywhere. And she was very cute. When her mean mama said she couldn’t wear it to school, she wore this headband instead. Adorable, no? Only she was covering up THIS. Curse you, scissors. Does anyone [...]

One time I don’t want to party

AnissaM — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:00:55 +0000

I had this whole post planned about the “end of treatment party” or lack thereof. I even had it partially drafted. Everything I needed to say about this subject is totally encapsulated in the next sentences I’m going to type: Another friend’s child relapsed this week. A young man, eleven years out of treatment, was diagnosed with a [...]

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Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Would you like fries with that?
Fast food incompetence reaches an all new low!

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Sat, 18 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Billy-Bob Trumps Duchovny In The TeaLeonifornication Stakes
So... while David Duchovny's been tom-catting around feeding his supposed sex addiction, wife Tea's been - reportedly - hanging out with Billy-Bob Thornton, who, rumor has it, has, erm, a LOT to offer a lonely woman...