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The Results Are In…
No more cancer! Dr. Hammond reviewed the pre-treatment and post-treatment PET Scans side-by-side with us. For some reason we had never seen the pre-treatment scan in detail. A normal scan is shades of black and grey. Fast growing cells show up kind of like a fire, with reddish being more active, then orange hues and…
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The Follow-up PET Scan
I wrote most of this a few weeks ago, but hadn’t gotten around to posting it. I guess you could say that today is a big day. I finished my last chemotherapy treatment on April 10th, about 4 weeks ago. Today I repeat the PET Scan to see if the treatments have worked, and the…
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Cycle 4 – Ring the Bell!!
We were fortunate to be able to spend Easter at home and enjoyed going to in person church! But then we had to head back to Jacksonville that evening for the fourth and (hopefully) final cycle. It was thankfully a mostly uneventful treatment cycle. This cycle was the same treatment as cycle 2 – so…
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Spring Break and Cycle 3, Part 2
We had a great break with the kids. A week and a half of no Chemo, the kids had Spring Break, and we celebrated Bennett’s birthday on his birthday, then had a joint birthday party with Avery to round out the week! (Dinosaurs versus Unicorns). Clay has been dreading going back to start part 2…
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Jax Recap & Spring Break
I guess we just took pictures of all the fun parts of Jacksonville. It looks like all we did was eat, eat, eat. I’m not complaining, we did eat really good food. I would rather do outpatient treatments every single time. Getting to go “home” to a hotel, look at the beach before & after…
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Team In Training- Support LLS
Our sweet friend Jill Smith has been fundraising for the Leukemia Lymphoma Society since her mom passed away from Lymphoma in 2003. Clay and I have always admired and supported her in her fundraising efforts for the organization, but have not seen LLS in action until Clay’s diagnosis. Not only do they offer so many…
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Back to Jax – Cycle 3
We came back to Jacksonville Sunday for Clay to start Cycle 3, Part 1. Sunday night we ate dinner at the Landshark restaurant at the brand new Margaritaville resort on Jacksonville Beach. Everything smells new and reminds me of Jimmy Buffet’s marketing genius. Cycle 3, Part 1, Day 1 – office visit with Dr. Hammond…
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Home Sweet Home
Thank you for all of the prayers! Clay was able to come home yesterday and felt better than he has in weeks. Thanks to Dr. Rick, the antibiotics and 3 units of blood – he was looking and feeling so much better. Thankfully, he did not even need the giant suitcase I packed for him.…
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Jackson County Living
Jackson County agrees with Clay – he is doing great! I put Dr. Brunner in touch with Dr. Hammond this morning and the great medical minds together decided that (1) Clay is alive by the grace of God, medical intervention, and because he has a pushy wife and (2) he needs to stay inpatient overnight…
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Neutropenic Fever
I woke up not feeling great this morning. A lot of times it’s had to explain. I just call it a “blah feeling”. I knew that today would be one of the days that my blood count numbers were expected to be low, one week after my last chemo treatment. Then in the next few…