When Sam was first diagnosed with a Grade 4 brain tumor, Jere and I peeked at the Internet during those early days to find out about this dreaded disease. It only took one day to find out that the Internet was not the place to be in our fragile state. Everywhere we looked, it was…
Did you know…. Childhood cancers are the #1 disease killer of children — more than asthma, cystic fibrosis, diabetes, and pediatric AIDS combined. One in every 330 children will develop cancer before the age of 19. The National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) federal budget was $4.6 billion. Of that, breast cancer received 12%, prostate cancer received…
The first day of school was August 11th and the kids are settling in nicely! Jack has made the move to the Intermediate School for 5th grade and Sam is back at his elementary school for 3rd grade. After weighing the pros and cons, we decided to let him move onto the next grade. So…
We arrived at Riley to have Sam’s port accessed and then headed over to the MRI department for Sam’s 10:45am appointment. They were running behind, so after waiting in the waiting room for a little over an hour, we were called back around noon. Eddie, the MRI guy, had Sam change into some oh so…
Another trip to clinic for bloodwork since Sam’s counts were low the last time tests were ran. Sam was on the borderline for receiving a platelet transfusion the last time we were in and Dr. Pradhan wanted to make sure his numbers were headed in the right direction. Dr. Pradhan let us go home without…