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Category Archives: Hospital

Owen’s Leukemia – Day 95

Owen was discharged from the hospital today!!!  Yay!  We were so happy to have him come back home… although when Jeff told Owen this morning when he woke up he started to cry.  He said he was going to miss his nurses.  That’s the one great thing about the 9th floor, they have the best […]

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Owen’s Leukemia – Day 94

Owen was scheduled to get more chemo today, but they postponed it until next Wednesday.  He has been having problems with his oxygen levels, and they didn’t want to sedate him just in case. He was doing worlds better today… back to making the nurses smile.  The goal for today was to get him off […]

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Owen’s Leukemia – days 92-93

Through the night on Tuesday was pretty rough.  He didn’t sleep much and was in so much pain.  The whole night we kept checking his temperature to make sure he didn’t get a fever.    We also kept debating if we should just take him to the ED or try to wait it out until […]

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Owen’s Leukemia – Day 85

Today was a hospital day.  He was very brave and took the access to the port well.  He is still afraid that it is going to hurt, but because he has the numbing cream it is more of a mental thing than actual pain. We asked them about the leg pain, and they said a […]

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Owen’s Leukemia – Day 73

Today was filled with Doctor’s appointments.  We started off this morning at the Cardiologist clinic.  The nurses were going to attempt to give him an EKG (which would have meant lots of stickers all over) and after a lot of high pitched screaming, they opted not to do one.  They wanted one of him in […]

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