This is how my 2.5 year old son with cancer, his older brother and I survived leukemia treatment and managed to reenter the real world over four long years. Just barely.

Childhood cancer occurs regularly, randomly and spares no ethnic group, socioeconomic class or geographical region. One in every 330 Americans develops cancer, during childhood or adolescence, before the age of 20. The cause of most childhood cancers is unknown and at present, childhood cancer can not be prevented.

Intro to Leukemia

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

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January 19th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: During treatment, Leukemia Encyclopedia | Leave a comment

Chasing Penguins in Africa

The moment you have kids, your parents will start telling you how to raise them. Everything from sleep schedules to bottle-feeding to the brand of laundry soap you should use. If you are lucky and your parents are pretty good people, this will be pleasurable experience for all of you. If you are like me,

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October 30th, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: Intro Information | Leave a comment

A lucky chance diagnosis.

This is the first journal entry we had on our CaringBridge site.

White Cell Count: 14.0 (Normal = 4.0 – 12)
Hemoglobin: 4.8 (Normal = 11.5 -14.5)
Platelet: 25 (Normal = 160 – 370)
ANC: 420 (Normal = 1400 – 6600)

Skeeter just before dx in 2004

It was a Tuesday. I will never forget that it was a Tuesday.

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October 28th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , | Category: During treatment, Our Story | Leave a comment