Archive for January, 2010
HAPPY BOYS
Sunday, January 24th, 2010Sam came home yesterday afternoon.  Thank you nurse Sheila for working so hard to get us out of there.  The boys were so happy to see each other yesterday afternoon. Neil brought Andy and Charlie out to meet the car. Andy said earlier in the morning, “I’m going to be so happy to see Sam […]
Working Towards Getting Sam Home
Thursday, January 21st, 2010Sorry about the radio silence. Sam has a good couple of days.  He slept through the night once we upped the pain medications and added Decadron and the chemo. Probably a combination of all of it helped to make him feel better. Yesterday he was in the playroom from two to four and six to […]
Hard
Sunday, January 17th, 2010We have had a hard couple of days. Sam had an awful night on Thursday night with abdominal pain and leg and arm and rib pain. We admitted him on Friday morning and he is on a pain pump. Once he got the pain pump going he was able to eat and play chess and […]
Up and Down Days/Scanning Tomorrow
Thursday, January 14th, 2010Sam has had up and down days in terms of pain.  On Saturday we all went for breakfast at Konos with Vickie Buenger, the inspiring Erin’s mom,  http://www.erinbuenger.blogspot.com/  and got to spend  some time with her at our house. Vickie, so great to get to see you. You were such a hit with the boys. Sam used the king […]
180 Degrees
Saturday, January 9th, 2010Sam is studying angles in math and we talked this week about what it means when someone does a 180 so I thought it a good title for this post. After a sleepless Thursday night where we were chasing pain and trying to get Sam comfortable we had a long day in the hospital yesterday where […]
Pain Seems to be a Little Better
Thursday, January 7th, 2010Sam seems to be doing somewhat better today. He slept through the night last night which was not the case on Tuesday night. We were up most of the night trying to get a pain med combination that would let him sleep. We’d give him something and then an hour later he would wake up again. […]
Back at It
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010We were in the hospital all day yesterday getting Rituxan and vinblastine. Sam’s pain returned on Saturday and has been getting worse in the past couple of days. He’s been on hydrocodone and prednezone and yesterday when we got to the clinic his arm was hurting so badly that he got a dose of morphine. We met with the pain team […]
Happy New Year’s Eve! 100 Wishes for Sam
Friday, January 1st, 2010Happy New Year’s Eve! Sorry to leave everyone hanging. It was a short stay in the hospital and we were out on Tuesday afternoon. We spent the afternoon at the beach at low tide passing the football around and today the boys were at the park all day with a passel of kids, Monacos, Brunettes, […]