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Monthly Archives: February 2013

Owen’s Leukemia – Day 95

Owen was discharged from the hospital today!!!  Yay!  We were so happy to have him come back home… although when Jeff told Owen this morning when he woke up he started to cry.  He said he was going to miss his nurses.  That’s the one great thing about the 9th floor, they have the best […]

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Owen’s Leukemia – Day 94

Owen was scheduled to get more chemo today, but they postponed it until next Wednesday.  He has been having problems with his oxygen levels, and they didn’t want to sedate him just in case. He was doing worlds better today… back to making the nurses smile.  The goal for today was to get him off […]

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Owen’s Leukemia – days 92-93

Through the night on Tuesday was pretty rough.  He didn’t sleep much and was in so much pain.  The whole night we kept checking his temperature to make sure he didn’t get a fever.    We also kept debating if we should just take him to the ED or try to wait it out until […]

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Owen’s Leukemia – Day 91

Another day of not talking… the insides of his cheeks are all white.  Basically a mouth full of ulcers.  So, if you know the pain of having one little ulcer in your mouth, just imagine if the whole inside of your mouth (and probably down your throat) was like that.  I called the hospital again […]

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Owen’s Leukemia – Day 90

Yucky day here… Owen woke up with a sore throat and hasn’t said too much of anything today.  He hasn’t eaten a thing all day, but continues to feel like he is going to be sick. I called the nurse today, and they prescribed him a different anti-nausea medicine to see if it helps at […]

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