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Monday, March 23rd, 2009Boys are in school today. No medical dramas except for Charlie, who acidentally got kicked in the tooth wrestling with Andy and needs to get his tooth x-rayed this afternoon. We had a nice spring weekend, went to the zoo on Saturday for Charlie. Everytime we play with cars or action figures downstairs Charlie has […]
Results
Friday, March 20th, 2009To start with, the CT was totally clear. Wohoo! No soft tissue disease. The MIBG summary read as follows: IMPRESSION: Mulitple areas of skeletal metastases. Findings are likely unchanged compared with the prior study given the differences in technique (not sure what differences they are referring to here). The only appreciable difference is the previously seen […]
Scans
Thursday, March 19th, 2009We have been so caught up in the revolving stomach flu, pink- eye, fevers, etc.  that scans this week snuck up on me. Sam was in the hospital on Monday and Tuesday nights due to a fever. He had good counts but they wanted to wait until his blood cultured since it was a 1am […]
The Luck O’ The Irish
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009Andrew is home now and is showing slight improvement. Much slower than we’d hoped. It’s taking a while. This morning he’s sitting up and playing some video games with his brothers. The amount of television all three have watched in the last week is embarrassing. I got so desperate last night that I made them […]
Andrew is in the Hospital
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009Andrew was admitted to Children’s yesterday. I brought him in to the ER at 4am on Saturday with pretty severe abdominal pain. Neil and I were worried it might be appendicitis as Dr. James had told me to watch out for it. The X-Ray showed a belly full of air, his stomach and colon are […]
All Three Asleep at 2:30pm
Saturday, March 7th, 2009It’s 2:30 on a Saturday afternoon and all three boys are asleep downstairs. Sam finished his last day of irrino today and now he gets a little chemo rest before the next round. Our food honeymoon is over. He’s really not had much appetite this week and threw up twice today. Other than that though he’s been […]
Dinosaurs and Gandhi
Thursday, February 26th, 2009Sam and Andy in front of a bearskin Boys listening to the paleontologist discuss unearthing a mammoth (mammoth tooth in front of Sam) The two goofballs in the pictures are ours We are having a relatively calm and normal week. Sam finished his tenth day of radiation yesterday morning. He’s gone in every morning at […]
Numbers Down
Friday, February 20th, 2009 Quick numbers update: Neil just called me from the hosptial and our VMA/HVA numbers are down. We took them twice this last week.  On Monday afternoon and first thing Tuesday morning. The Monday afternoon numbers were: VMA 30 and HVA 19 and the Tuesday morning numbers were VMA 35 and HVA 27.  Quite a big […]
Out in the Sunshine
Thursday, February 19th, 2009We are having a lovely 72 degree day here in San Diego. It has rained for the past two days. As if our life were a movie, the weather has turned beautiful on our first day out of the hospital. The day we went in it was pouring rain. I think my lowest moments have […]
In-Patient
Tuesday, February 17th, 2009Dr. Kadota gave us a direct admit this morning by phone. Sam woke up feeling cruddy and with diarrhea and still fevery. When we got to the hospital his fever had officially spiked 101.5. It was 99 last we checked this afternoon. He’s perked up some. We had a movie marathon of Karate Kid (really […]
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