Noticing a Pattern

We’ve been mostly coasting through the last few months. Chemo at home M-W-F, 5 days of steroids each month and up to Clinic every 2 or 4 weeks. Alyson’s hair has been growing which we all find very exciting. The only thing to mention is that we’ve been making monthly trips to the Emergency Department. [...]

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Risk Assessment

I typically follow “the rules”. I exercise, eat well, buy organics, put Alyson through all these treatments, leave Bradyn at home to comply with the new “flu guidelines” at Clinic and so forth. More to the point of this discussion, I am very patient when it comes to needing to stay in the hospital. “The [...]

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Back at the Hospital

Yesterday afternoon, John took Alyson’s temperature and it had popped above the magical 101F. A phone call, a drive and an admittance. To sum up, her ANC is less than 20 which makes her body run a “just in case” fever. It makes sense, really. If you can’t fight off an infection, then why not [...]

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