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.

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

Reprogramming my brain

There are a lot of things that I miss about the old me… the “pre-cancer me”… but it is only now, two years removed from active treatment, that I am noticing how many ways my brain got rewired. I had figured out how to achieve things in a panic-driven thought

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October 27th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Emotions and reactions, Personal Reflections | Leave a comment