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, […]
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 […]
I know why Austin enjoys the hospital so much. He has my complete attention when we’re there. All the usual distractions are erased: laundry to fold, computer to check, big brother to care for. Nope, when we’re there, even just for our twice-weekly clinic visits, I have nothing but occasional phone-surfing to draw me away […]
You should’ve seen me trying to put Austin down to sleep last night while he kept insisting, “We are NOT sleeping at the hospital!” It was after ten when he finally conked out only to be roused a few hours later and whisked off into the cold dark night. But he happily watched the empty […]
The past day and a half have been a little better. Austin learned (through some trial and error) that flying into a rage wouldn’t prevent him from being re-hooked to his pole, so he makes the most of his few minutes of freedom and then begrudgingly allows his nurse to screw that IV tube back […]
Did I mention that this is exhausting? Austin has been extremely feisty today and feisty is a bit of a euphemism. He is full of anger and bluster at being “hooked up” to his IV and insists over and over at the highest volumes that we unhook him. Last night, when he’d finished his chemo […]
I always feel the need to put you all at ease right away and start my postings with “All is well,” particularly after a day or two with no update. So, yes, all is well. We checked into the hospital yesterday morning after confirming that Austin’s platelet count had tripled and settled in for our […]
All is fine. The waiting was ridiculous, indeed the hardest part, trust me. But all is well. The radiologist and oncologist noticed some spots on Austin’s kidney on yesterday’s ultrasound that weren’t present on the previous one and wanted to check with the surgeon to make sure they were expected post-operative marks and not a […]