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Monthly Archives: March 2013

Owen’s Leukemia – Days 129-131

Happy Easter!  What a beautiful holiday weekend.  Jeff had the day off on Friday so we spent it running around doing errands. Saturday, Jeff ran in a race at North Park in the morning. He is training for the Pittsburgh half marathon at the beginning of May, so he thought he would do a little […]

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Owen’s Leukemia – Day 128

He was feeling good again today!  He had a lot of energy and was really in the mood to play some baseball.  I would throw this little foam ball to him and he would hit it with his golf club.  Surprisingly, he was doing really well!  He had some really great hand / eye coordination.  […]

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Owen’s Leukemia – Day 127

Back to the hospital.  I feel like we are always there… the lady reassured me that there are definitely others in the same boat.  It is so sad that there are so many families that have to endure this journey.  I also feel so fortunate that we have such a wonderful, supportive group of family […]

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Owen’s Leukemia – Day 126

Today was much better.  We did a lot of relaxing, playing and art time.  Owen felt good all day.  The effects of the drug from yesterday were all gone. Thanks for the well wishes, thoughts and prayers.  Hopefully tomorrows clinic visit is way less eventful.  He gets Vincristine and Doxorubicin tomorrow which he had last […]

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Owen’s Leukemia – Day 125

We had a clinic visit today.  He was scheduled to get PEG- L-asparaginase this morning.  They do it by IV and it takes one hour to infuse.  They monitor his vitals every 15 minutes for 2 hours, and for the first 15 minutes, the nurse needs to stay in the room.  This is because it […]

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