Posts Tagged ‘peyton’s treatment’

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 fighting infection, if anything [...]

We’re breathing again…it is DONE.  We got to the hospital at 7:30 for Peyton’s surgery at 9 and the waiting was agonizing.
Peyton? Totally unaffected.
She did ask me several times if I would be able to stay with her and every time my heart puddled a wee bit more. She had her daddy at her side [...]

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 [...]

“Bad things have happened, but we’ve managed to endure it.”
Not exactly the wonderful frame of mind one wants to take into Thanksigiving.
But really?  We have not had the best track record.
2005 brought a stroke for me and a fall full of physical therapy and worries of what kind of mother I would be if I [...]

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 [...]