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Owen’s Leukemia – Day 216

Back to the hospital today for chemo.  It was so nice having his port accessed from Monday.  The nurse did a little dance because she knows how bad he hates having it poked.  She did have to de-access it, but it wasn’t as bad as we thought it would be.  There was a lot of […]

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Owen’s Leukemia – Day 215

Owen took it easy today.  Still feeling a little off since the surgery yesterday.  I am proud of him that he knew his body and didn’t want to over do it.  He felt good, but a little sore. We go back to the hospital tomorrow for his chemo.  Hopefully he continues to feel ok.

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Owen’s Leukemia – Day 214

Today was surgery number #3 for Owen.  They successfully removed the port that was working its way through, and installed a new port.  It is on his left side now instead of his right.  They weren’t able to keep it on the same side due to space.  The great news is that a new one […]

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Owen’s Leukemia – Days 211-213

Friday we went back to the hospital to have Owen’s Doctor, Dr. Cooper, look at his port.  He agreed with everyone else that it needs to come out.  The Intervention Radiologist came up and looked at it too, and he thinks that he should be able to take it out and put a new one […]

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Owen’s Leukemia – Day 210

We had a super day!  Owen’s best friends, Noah and Annalise, have a pool and we got to go over and play and swim!  The pool was pretty cold, but the boys had a blast jumping in and swimming around.  There were many sun breaks to warm up, but they kept wanting to get back […]

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