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Yearly Archives: 2013

Owen’s Leukemia – Days 231-235

Well, we made it through the weekend without ending up in the hospital.  Owen’s mouth sores are still there, but we have been managing the pain.  He hasn’t used too much pain medicine, and has gotten a lot better at swishing the mouthwash. Saturday we did something really fun for the boys… took them to […]

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Owen’s Leukemia – Day 230

And… the mouth sores are back.  Owen woke up this morning and was talking with his jaw clenched and only moving his lips and I knew.  I had him hold some honey in his mouth (a recommendation from a good friend who has been though this before) and it seemed to help.  I looked in […]

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Owens Leukemia – Days 226-229

Sorry for the absence.  Things have been going well.  Owen was feeling a bit off this weekend.  The medicine really seemed to effect him this time.  It would go in waves.  He would feel good and want to do something, but then start to do it, and want to lay back down.  The resting this […]

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Owen’s Leukemia – Days 224-225

What a wonderful 4th of July we had yesterday.  We had a relaxing morning.  Owen was helping Daddy smoke some meat to get ready for our afternoon picnic.  We meet his cousins, aunt, uncle, Nanny and Poppy at the Riverhound game.  It was a fun game, even though they didn’t win.  The boys went down […]

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Owen’s Leukemia – Days 221-223

Owen’s been doing great!  His port is healing nicely.  We go back Friday for a lumbar puncture, so they will be removing the stitches from the old port spot then.  His legs haven’t been affected by the Vincristine this time, which is wonderful!!  We were at the park today, and I was watching him run […]

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