Jack is totally in to the Backyardigans (in Jack-anese that’s “back-ya-ya-ya”). There’s this episode that he’s fixated on where the Ya-ya-ya’s chase the wormens around the house singing “what’s bugging you, what’s bugging you, do you have a pesky pest?!” Seems there’s pesky pests everywhere these days (Here: we are talking literal and figurative!). In…
Tag Archive: childhood cancer
Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
Did you know that this month is Childhood Cancer Awareness month? Kids all over the world are suffering from cancer. Hospital floors are filled with children with bald heads, going through chemotherapy, bone marrow transplants, and surgeries as they literally fight for their lives. Before 2007, I had no idea. I knew it existed of…
Why Tuesday is worse than Monday
“How has she been this month?” The doctors at Peyton’s clinic will ask me this Tuesday afternoon, the same way they do every month. Three Mondays of every month I write my post here and I’m doing ok…because Peyton’s doing ok. That fourth Monday is the night I think and process everything that’s happened over…
At least it’s not meth, right?
Guess what I’ve found out about childhood cancer…one of the long term side effects is apparently a raging case of hypochondria. It’s not hard to figure out, but Peyton is addicted to pills. Not in an Amy-Winehouse-Betty-Ford-bound sort of way…but I suppose that’s what happens when you take daily medications for thirty months. Now that…
The Good Stuff
Presents, food and decorations are all good stuff, how can you not be happy about those things? We ARE talking about Honey Baked Ham, ya’ll and that’s reason enough to get in the spirit. I do enjoy all those things and never fail to be thankful for them. But you know what really rocked this…
Would you save a life if you could?
When Peyton was diagnosed with Leukemia, one question that we were asked repeatedly was, “She needs a bone marrow transplant, right?” I would have to explain that bone marrow transplant is a last ditch effort, that you don’t do it unless nothing else works, you don’t WANT to do bone marrow transplant. There’s nothing easy,…
Wonderful Things I Wish We Didn’t Have
Our weekend was really ridiculously busy. We went to a hockey game where my older two kids got to announce the start of the game and we sat on the ice smack dab in the middle of the two team benches. We spent the after-game time meeting the players and letting the kids get autographs….
This Just In: A New Team Member
Anissa, from hope4peyton, will be joining our 5MFSN in this time spot. Yeah. How lucky are we? Smart. Funny. And an advocate that isn’t afraid to go all MOTHER OF THE BEAST when necessary. But, you know. In a good way. Anissa blogs at Peyton’s Hope Page where she encourages us to Live, Laugh, Live,…