A journey with childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia
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...
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...
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...
We’ve never been helicopter parents, hovering over our kid worried about every little sniffle and scrape, but there’s no escaping the necessity now of careful monitoring. His weight, his temperature, how quickly incisions and...
Last week’s hospitalization shook me. Because Wes seems healthy – all of his visible symptoms are related to treatment more than the underlying leukemia – it was easy to get comfortable after returning home...
