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Category Archives: Hospital

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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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 – Days 207-209

Today was a hospital day and we got some bad news.  I should have kept my mouth shut on the way to the hospital.  I was telling my mother-in-law about how I haven’t been posting everyday lately since he has been doing so good and I feel like we do the same thing everyday.  We […]

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