October 3rd, 2010 |
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My writing for this blog has been sporadic these past two months due to Kayla being sick quite a bit. I feel like an idiot thinking that we would have smooth sailing after getting off chemo. Two asthma attacks that were pretty bad, meant Kayla having to take steroids on a daily basis. Prednisone along [...]
September 21st, 2010 |
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Kayla had a possible break in her wrist this month. The emergency room told us that they did not see anything on the x-ray but if pain persisted to follow up with an orthopedist. We waited three days and with the continued symptoms I started calling orthopedists to get an appointment. I have to back [...]
September 7th, 2010 |
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Besides the angst with Kayla’s asthma (thankfully now over) I was busy working on a writing project. Glamor Magazine hosts an essay contest every year and I decided to enter. With the help of friends giving me their critiques and minor edits, I sent the completed essay in last night. My previous contest with Oprah [...]
August 31st, 2010 |
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August 31st, 2010 Asthma Note: August was a month where many things happened concurrently such as the asthma, stopping the Septra and starting school. Because of so much content, I had to separate these three subjects for ease of reading. We had a great week until Kayla starts to get sick. It seems like a [...]
August 27th, 2010 |
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August 27th, 2010 Septra/Bactrim antibiotic Last month I found a website exposing Septra/Bactrim, the antibiotic that Kayla has been taking for thirty-two months. A reporter in England exposes the history and truth behind this drug and it is quite shocking. Apparently one of the drug patents was running out. To fix this it was decided [...]
August 19th, 2010 |
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August 2010 Big news – Kayla’s port was removed on the 19th of August. This meant so very much to her. Apparently if the port was bumped when playing, the metal part in the back of it would dig into her chest bone causing her a fair amount of pain. You can imagine her relief [...]
July 15th, 2010 |
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Oxygen, 15 July 2010 I have been studying the subject of oxygen and its effects upon the body, which is actually astounding. Instead of talking about it I have put a link to a great video on You Tube. It shows how miraculous oxygen can be for health. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbFs9NN__Mk I went and purchased a used [...]
July 3rd, 2010 |
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Below are notes taken from Justen Jones care page. “Justen is 11 yrs old now. He was diagnosed with Pineoblastomas, a Brain tumor, at 5 yrs old. That was in June of 2004. Since then he has completed very high dosage Chemotherapy Treatments, Radiation, Bone Marrow Transplants with Stem Cell Rescue, and Gamma Knife Surgery.” [...]
June 25th, 2010 |
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Big Audition June 25 – 28th, 2010 Wow, what a weekend and also the weeks leading up to this audition. Let me start at the beginning. I heard about the contest in the beginning of June or late May. Finding someone to help with a video was not easy. Once that was found we did [...]
June 23rd, 2010 |
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I am putting this on my website and blog for the states and people who are located near the BP oil leak that is continuing to spew oil therefore “dispersants” are being used which are dangerous to anyone in the vicinity. Here are two article excerpts and links. Basically stay away from the beaches where [...]