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This is Day 7 of my baby, Serenity, being diagnosed with and treated for Leukemia.  Day 6 is here.

Depending on how her bloodwork looks tomorrow, Serenity is doing well enough that her Oncologist is ready to discharge her!  Her blood counts are way up - not anywhere near a typical healthy person - but up enough that […]

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This is Day 6 of my baby, Serenity, being diagnosed with and treated for Leukemia.  Day 5 is here. 
 
Goals for today were:
- No puking… check
- Take oral meds better….check
- Eat some food….check

 
Other than some cancer specific issues, there was a lot of happiness in our hospital room today.  The “Child Life” group brought teddy bears […]

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This is Day 5 of my baby, Serenity, being diagnosed with and treated for Leukemia.  Day 4 is here.

Serenity had some happy moments today, but they were short-lived.
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Today was actually a pretty rough day for Serenity, it was a day filled with more drugs/meds than most people take […]

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This is Day 4 of Serenity, my baby, being diagnosed with and treated for Leukemia.  Day 3 is here.

Today started out peacefully, Serenity slept in pretty late - much needed sleep! 
Due to the incredible outpouring of generosity by friends and community online, the ChipIn widget earned over $1,000.00 in less than 24 hours!  Once Serenity […]

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A friend and old business partner, Jesse Stay, has put together a ChipIn Widget that will let those who have been asking how to donate money for Serenity do just that.  He has all the details on his blog here.  As I mentioned in my prevoius post, he and a few other people are also […]

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This is Day 3 of my daughter, Serenity, being treated for Leukemia.  Day 2 is here. 
Today has been a very long, very stressful and very upbeat day! 
The day started with surgery prep.  Her platelletes were low again, too low to do surgery, so they gave her another bag.  Then there were several drugs that she […]

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A little bit of peace.

 
After having a slight reaction to her last blood transfusion, they gave her some Benadryll and we were both able to get some good sleep.
Surgery in about an hour.
 
The story of Serenity’s battle with Leukemia begins here.
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This is the Day 2 post of my baby, Serenity, being diagnosed with Leukemia.  Day 1 is here. 
It’s been a Bad news, Good news kind of day. 

The bad news - our baby has Cancer.  The good news - she’s most likely not going to die.
The bad news - she’s looking at 2 1/2 years of treatments.  The good […]

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