Cycle 6 – Sassy Sally Tantrum
Hi all – First off, there’s a young boy named Aidan, who has never met Sally but follows her story with his family, that is shaving his head to raise money for pediatric cancer research in honor of Sally. He’s very close to his goal of $1,000. If anybody would like to donate to help […]
Snowstorms & Valentines
Hi all – As expected it was a long week, hence why we refer to this period in Sally’s cycle as Hell Week 2. On Wednesday we brought her in for the first of three days of chemo, the first two of which are the daunorubicin. Dauno is part of the anthracycline family of chemos, […]
Dauno Week
Hi all – Things are finally starting to get back to “normal” at home. It was a long week for all of us as the stomach bug worked its way through our family, Thomas being the final victim. Only today are we all starting to eat normally again and having meals together. Sally went into […]
Throw Up
Hi all – I’m sorry for the title, I always try to pick 1-2 words that summarize the post and nothing else made sense for this one. Last night I was heading to bed after spending a couple hours with a smiling and very playful Sally, who also wanted to stay up til 10pm. I […]
Stomach Flu
Hi all – It was a crazy day, but Sally is home. In the middle of the night I came down with what can only be described as a stomach flu, I’ll spare you those details. I (barely) got the boys off to school and let Nicole know before collapsing on our bed, unable to […]
Lasix
Hi all – I just realized that an error occurred in our last blog update, and a draft was published instead of the correct final (longer and edited) version intended. The challenges of trying to send an update on a phone in a rush 🙂 We were admitted this afternoon and funny enough are sharing […]
Admitted for Super Bowl
Hi all – just a quick update. Sally is being admitted after spending the morning and afternoon in MSK’s Urgent Care. We brought her in very early this morning after having nausea and vomitting for 12 straight hours. Since being here, she has thrown up on both Nicole and I, and more strangely hasn’t peed […]
Rise of the Sunshine
Hi all – Sally had a very busy week, making three trips to Memorial Sloan Kettering for treatment. On Monday, we brought her in for her gamma globulin infusion. In last week’s update we told you how her antibody level was extremely low so she couldn’t fight off infections like the RSV. All went well, […]