Welcome, Ruth
Ruth Marjorie Howard came thundering into this world yesterday at 1:43pm like the force she will one day become. The sun was shining, birds were chirping, the cops showed up… But we’ll get into...
Monthly Archive: March 2019
Packing List for CHOP
One of the first things we did when we came home from that initial week in the hospital was put together a “go bag” of essentials we’d need if we had to scramble and...
Mucositis (no fun)
We’ve been here a few days now, and Wes has improved consistently. He’s got oral mucositis, a common side-effect of chemo, particularly the high dose methotrexate that he’s receiving every couple of weeks. Mucositis...
The laws of physics conspire
We can’t be in two places at once – so says the universe, and it seems to be true because there’s no law I’d rather violate than this one. My extremely pregnant wife is...
A fair trade
I’ve tried to find an opening, some way to approach this topic, a dozen times already but the words just aren’t arriving tonight, so I’ll cut the preamble short and just say what’s been...
Toxic toddler
Chemotherapy is the process of delivering just enough poison to cancer cells without killing everything else; the therapeutic drugs Wesley receives are highly toxic, and the rest of his medications are almost entirely devoted...