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Journals

Mommy come with me in Heaven

By Cherime · Posted September 4, 2009
8 replies
After treating several chemotheraphy and radiation, Charles body will just rest for two months, then after that, the cancer cell will grow again to liver, bone.... Still fighting the beast for three years ...

Caitlyn

By mnelson · Posted August 29, 2009
10 replies
Caitlyn is not doing well today. Each day gets a little bit worse. I am glad that she does not seem to be in much pain. She is so much stronger than me ...

Super Keegan Chronicles #1 8/25/09 -- From the Beginning

By PoeDunk · Posted August 25, 2009
2 replies
I'm glad I found this site, because at the Children's hospital we are the only Neuroblastoma patients, and it's hard. Yes there are a lot of other Cancer patients there, many are leukemia patients, and ...

Blue Mommy Van

By JLH1 · Posted August 25, 2009
1 reply
Hi friends. I wrote the following essay for our daughter's CarePage website (www.carepages.com key word AshleyHendrick), but decided to post it on this site as well. I am guessing there are many of you ...

Son had double stem cell transplant at Sloan in NYC

By CodysMom · Posted August 16, 2009
1 reply
My son had his transplant on June 4th. After 75 days away from home we are here a week now. It takes time but I worry about every little thing. I am on Long Island and am looking for some support for ...

Scheduled maintenance this evening

By TeamInspire · Posted August 10, 2009
13 replies
All, Inspire will be performing database updates this evening starting at 8:00 Eastern. We expect the updates to take no more than 2 hours and the site will be unavailable at this time. We thank you for ...

Radiation Done

By kristina_dunn · Posted August 7, 2009
0 replies
We are finished with our radiation. We get an mri done on Monday. I hope everything goes well. Nina has been doing great. Yesterday she started to choke on some chocolate and then some cupcakes. But everything ...

Almost done

By kristina_dunn · Posted August 5, 2009
0 replies
We are on week 6 of radiation. She finishes with it on Friday. I am so proud of her. She is doing awesome. We go home next week but will be back in October. I hope everything goes really good from here ...

ODE TO DR. B

By Ronda12 · Posted August 2, 2009
1 reply
I JUST WANTED TO SHARE A POEM TO MY SONS HEMATOLOGIST, HE HAS BEEN WONDERFUL! His name is Emmett Broxson. Some of us call him “Dr. B”. This man is a true hero. I would like the world to see. I have this ...

Little Mathew

By sessarize · Posted July 31, 2009
0 replies
My idea started by just wanting to help Mathew. Now I believe I can actually help thousands of children not miss out on being children ...

are you there

By MartysDad · Posted July 28, 2009
3 replies
we are looking for others who may have a similar situation our dear son Marty who was 18 passed away june 27 09 he had hodgkins lymphomia and had been through radiation we are having a real tough time ...

Good day

By kristina_dunn · Posted July 27, 2009
1 reply
Today has been an alright day. Nina is doing great. She has a minor cold but the doc says it will go away on its own. We started week 5 in radiation and she is just now starting to loose her hair. She ...

Life Goes On

By Cherime · Posted July 26, 2009
5 replies
Charles Being diagnose of stage 4 Neuroblastoma at the age of 4, was very hard physically, emotionally.... and the only thing that He told me " Mommy we have to pray more". He is strong than I am, thats ...

Daughter Sydney age 11 Diagnosed with Osteosarcoma

By Osteomom · Posted July 26, 2009
5 replies
We are now into month 7 or should I say, week 18 out of 30. Next scan Aug 11th , we are post bone graft to her left distal femur and just finished a Thoracotomy on the left lobe. Just want to hear from ...

BABY NINA

By kristina_dunn · Posted July 24, 2009
1 reply
MY BABY IS DOING REALLY GOOD. SHE WAS A LITTLE UPSET AFTER RADIATION TODAY. BUT SHE PULLED THROUGH WITH A LITTLE LOVIN FROM MOMMY. I THINK SHE IS CATCHING A COLD. SHE STARTED COUGHING AND SHE HAS A SLIGHT ...

MRI

By kristina_dunn · Posted July 21, 2009
2 replies
TODAY WE HAD AN MRI DONE. IT WAS A BRAIN SCAN. THEY SAID THAT THE TUMOR IS SHRINKING. I AM SO GLAD THAT THE TREATMENT SHE IS ON IS WORKING. I WANT THE TUMOR TO LEAVE AND NEVER COME BACK. MY BABY IS ONLY ...

Sunday

By kristina_dunn · Posted July 19, 2009
2 replies
Today was a good day for us. Nina woke up and was just a happy little girl. We went to the store came home and ate lunch. We cleaned up did laundry it was just a complete good day. She helped me with ...

Surgery

By Peggy-2 · Posted July 9, 2009
0 replies
Tomorrow July 10, 2009 my granddaughter will be undergoing eye surgery to try and remove the tumor, she is legally blind in her left eye and will not see out of it. I am really greatful for all the support ...

so it begins...

By jenniferjean · Posted July 7, 2009
5 replies
Josh had just finished track at school (he placed 5th in district in the mile :) ) and had started swim practice when he started experiencing horrible leg cramps. The cramps got so bad that I had to take ...

Prayers Needed

By curejamilia · Posted July 4, 2009
6 replies
Well, I haven't been on and written in a while. There's been so much going on. My daughter was supposed to get a PET scan yesterday but the facility called and had to reschedule because the tech was taking ...