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Category Archives: Chemo

Owen’s Leukemia – October 2013

Hello All!!!  We had a great month of September.  Owen has been feeling terrific!  Two weeks ago he started in a little soccer league on Saturday mornings.  It is perfect for his age.  They go over different techniques each week and then play games using those techniques.  He loves it!!  He gets so excited to […]

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Owen’s Leukemia – Day 258

HELLO MAINTENANCE!!!  Yay!  We are so excited to finally be here!  Owen did awesome today!  His counts were pretty much perfect (like a healthy person)!!  He got his lumbar puncture, and his Vincristine and we have a whole list of new medicines to start for these next 2 1/2 years.  I am going to need […]

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Owen’s Leukemia – Days 236-238

Well, yesterday was the last day of treatment in the intense phase.  2 weeks and we start Long Term Maintenance, as long as his counts are good enough.  He had a good day yesterday.  He had a hearing test in the morning, which he aced, then his chemo in the afternoon.  While he was waiting […]

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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 – 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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