Five weeks in
I’m not sure when I’ll stop counting, but it’s been five weeks since his diagnosis and every day I swing between feeling like it’s fresh and raw to it being so familiar and integral...
Author: Roger Howard
Portrait – November 30, 2018
Wesley loved eating cookies – kiecoos – until his diagnosis. He’s been fondling this Christmas tree cookie for almost an hour and occasionally tells me it’s an ice cream cone and then pantomimes licking...
Induction complete – much more to come
Yesterday was the official end of induction, the first phase of treatment. Induction is explained as: The goal of induction chemo is to get the leukemia into remission (complete remission). This means that leukemia...
Quiet house
Today is one of many days lately where I want to be somewhere I can’t. Though increasingly routine, Wes is having a procedure today all the way down in Philadelphia, an uncomfortable reminder that...
The months ahead
If we seem chipper and productive I think a lot is owed to focusing on a few days at a time, maybe looking as far out as two weeks. As a coping mechanism this...