Tuesday is Early Day. Braedan gets let out of school a full hour earlier on Tuesdays than any other day of the week, as that time is designated for teacher collaboration and professional development. This small fact was the driving force behind everything I did today and even back into last night. The surgery went […]
I was all set to post an update telling you how smoothly everything has gone. What a happy little ball of energy Austin has been for the past two days: racing up and down the hallways, flinging Play-doh balls around the room, flirting with the nurses. I was all set to tell you how we’d […]
Things continue to be mostly fine. Except (come on, must there always be an “except”?) that Austin has had small amounts of blood in his urine for the past few days. This is not unusual with one of his chemo drugs, which is why they pump him full of fluids in the first place. But […]
Things are going fine, except … a few weeks ago some angry patient on the pediatric psych floor above us purposefully set off the sprinkler system causing a flood and rendering a major portion of the oncology floor unusable. Oh yes. Because, come on now, this just isn’t designed to ever be easy. So all […]
We head back in to the hospital tomorrow morning, after a quick stop in the clinic for labs. His blood counts have been great for the past week (so great that he’s gone to school three days in a row — a veritable miracle!), so I don’t imagine we’ll have any trouble getting cleared for […]
One of the features on WordPress allows me to see which pages on my blog people visit and each day, there are at least several (presumably new) visitors who read the “About Krissy” page. So I just looked at it and, wow, that sure can’t help anyone! It actually says, in those few brief paragraphs, […]
There is definitely something to be said for Facebook and birthdays. Thank you all for the many many well wishes today. I’ve had a lovely day, actually a lovely weekend including dinner out with my husband on Friday and again with my family yesterday. Today started with homemade waffles and bacon, much to the delight […]
I went for a run today, which wasn’t terribly productive. The sidewalks were nonexistant and the roads had several inches of hard-packed snow making me feel like I was running in place. Which is how cancer treatment feels sometimes. Like we put forth enormous effort and get all tired out, but don’t get much of […]
They are not one-dimensional, these boys. Braedan is not all blue to Austin’s all red. They each have varied, and sometimes contradictory, personalities. Braedan, the “sensitive” one, is not at all shy. No, ask any teacher he’s had over the years, this boy is not quiet and not shy. He’ll talk your ear off, in […]
We are ever-so-slowly making our way through the boxes and putting together one room at a time (or in my case, putting together a tiny corner of one room and then one tiny corner of another, as every time I wander away looking for a screwdriver or curtain rod, I end up getting sucked into […]