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Category Archives: Hospital

3 Years from today…

will be the end of Owen’s treatment.  It seems like forever!  He will be in 1st grade and will know so much more than he knows today.  It is almost as long as he has been alive.  So many things go through my head to think about this number…. but I need to stop.  We […]

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Owen’s Leukemia – Day 57

Last spinal tap for a couple of weeks!  That is such a nice thing.  It is so hard to watch him get put under the sedation, so it will be nice to have a little break.  He has one more week in this second phase (Consolidation) and then he starts Interim Maintenance.  It will be […]

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Owen’s Leukemia – Day 50

Another spinal tap today.  We got in the room for the procedure, and Owen was napping even before they came in to give him the sedation.  He was making up for not napping yesterday.  The Cardiologist that was there to do the sedation changed up his sedation meds due to his SVT.  They are just […]

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Owen’s Leukemia – Day 42

This has been one of the most challenging and tense days we have had to date.  I arrived at the hospital early this morning thinking that once I got there we would be talking to the Doctors and heading out the door.  I walked in to the room and by looking at Jeff’s face, I […]

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Owen’s Leukemia – Day 41

Well, I guess Owen didn’t want his little brother showing him up and being the only one to spend New Year’s in the hospital… Owen was admitted last night and is still there.  We went in for dehydration and ended up in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU) for SVT.  If you you remember from […]

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