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
There is apparently a big difference between being mentally able and ready to talk about trauma and emotionally being able to do it. I was raring to go and it got the better of me. I had hoped I was far enough away from the blast zone by now – I think I am moving
Continue reading ….And then she walked away…