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Day 643/15

Laura Gilkey on October 5, 2016October 6, 2016

Benjamin’s sleepiness continues as his counts keep dropping. He didn’t wake up until morning rounds, when he heard me talking with Dr. Moore and our nursing team. There were no… Continue Reading Day 643/15

Categories: Uncategorized Tags: acute lymphoblastic leukemia, baseball, dasatanib, daunorubicin, dexrazoxane, Erwinia, methotrexate toxicity, relapse, school, siblings, vincristine1 Comment

Day 627

Laura Gilkey on September 19, 2016September 20, 2016

Benjamin’s bone marrow aspirate results are in. His marrow is 56% infected with Pre-B Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. Of course this isn’t good news, but it is a bit of… Continue Reading Day 627

Categories: Uncategorized Tags: acute lymphoblastic leukemia, CMMRD, colonoscopy, heart, lumbar puncture, methotrexate toxicity, relapse, school6 Comments

Day 591

Laura Gilkey on August 14, 2016

Our family enjoyed a sleepy morning before heading south to have brunch with Kathy and Gana. We’d planned to welcome Banyan home from camp by frying the scallops we all… Continue Reading Day 591

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Day 565

Laura Gilkey on July 19, 2016July 20, 2016

Benji and I had a busy day. He went to meeting with me and a job site for photo scouting in the morning. We took our sweet pup to the… Continue Reading Day 565

Categories: Uncategorized Tags: acute lymphoblastic leukemia, behavior, methotrexate toxicity, remission, siblings1 Comment

Day 491

Laura Gilkey on May 6, 2016

It’s been a beautiful and emotional day. I’m grateful for this sweet white space. I need to shape words around feelings that have no names. The weather has cooled off… Continue Reading Day 491

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Day 424

Laura Gilkey on February 29, 2016

Benjamin had a follow-up visit with cardiology today. It was an appointment I scheduled months ago, as part of our arrangement to check his suspected patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) annually,… Continue Reading Day 424

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