Tagged: Consolidation
Remission
Remission is a word that’s nearly as powerful as “cancer” itself, a term that’s almost exclusively used in context of a celebration that cancer’s butt has been kicked. Wes is officially in remission, and...
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...
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...