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I have already talked on here about how hard it is for me to make long term plans; how a fire can uproot your head and how a young child being sick rearranges your reality and makes life a blur around you for years. I have talked a bit on the paranoia and trauma to Continue reading ….That whole ‘future’ idea. One of the first things you get in treatment is the ever present RoadMap. With our hospital, since it was a teaching hospital, they essentially did a coinflip to see what path Skeeter’s treatment would take because they have three different medical trials running at one time. We didn’t have a choice in the path Continue reading ….Follow the road. As we are all mostly familiar with, cancer is abnormal cell growth. There are hundreds of kinds of cancer and generally, kids get different kinds than adults. Unfortunately, cancers that happen to kids tend to occur in developing cells like the bone marrow, blood, kidneys and tissues forming the nervous system, whereas adult cancers happen Continue reading ….Intro to Leukemia Here is an old journal entry about Skeeter hitting remission. Tuesday, April 27, 2004 White Cell Count: *** (Normal = 4.0 – 12) YEAH! It is official… Skeeter is in remission. His last draw came up at less than Continue reading ….The First Remission A few months ago, Skeeter was able to go to a pediatrician. Now, the last time we had seen this doctor was April 7, 2004, otherwise known as the day he was diagnosed. Since then, all of his doctor appointment and visits had been through Pediatric Oncology and there wasn’t much a regular doctor would Continue reading ….H1N1 – signs that cancer never leaves. |
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