Monthly Archives: August 2010

First of all, a BIG wonderful thank you to everyone who participated at the Zumba event and Donor Drive last night at Arcade Church!  Many thanks to Zumba instructor, Tiffany, who did an excellent job of keeping everyone moving to some great music and for also donating the proceeds of this event to our family!  (Interested...

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visit to stanford this Thursday

Katie and I will be heading out to Palo Alto tomorrow afternoon for (hopefully the last) consultation before going inpatient at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital.  She will be having the GFR test starting at 9:00 AM, then we will be meeting with the cardiologist and transplant doctors, all of which will happen on Thursday.  We are hoping and...

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a great clinic visit

Hi Everyone.  Last week’s clinic visit was very positive!  Katie is officially in remission (triples YEAHS!), her lab counts are mostly in the normal range and improving, and the CT scan  showed the fungal infection completely gone (except for one small possible “hole” which could just be scar tissue, or an encapsulated pocket…unknown).   The scan also showed...

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communication: the good, the bad, and the ugly

Katie’s appointment at Stanford has suddenly been moved forward to…hum… probably next week…not sure at this point.   Seems the transplant doctors would like more tests run on her prior to the oncology visit, and also due to scheduling a cardiology test prior to a visit with the cardiologist.  I’m trying to go with the flow on this one...

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numbers: The ups and downs…

Health Update:    Most parents who have gone through the journey of childhood cancer can tell you that numbers (specifically, lab report numbers) play a big factor in how well everything is going, or not.  It’s hard not to let them affect how you feel.  The last two weeks have been weeks of ups and downs. —  This...

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