This blog is a summary of our cancer travels and the solutions that I found to mitigate the many side effects which accompany chemo. All I want to do is help other people going through the same thing. Please understand that we are still going through treatment and it is taking me time to get everything onto this site. It is still under construction.
July 3rd, 2010 | by debwitter | Published in Uncategorized
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 | by debwitter | Published in Uncategorized
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 [...]
June 23rd, 2010 | by debwitter | Published in Uncategorized
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 [...]
June 16th, 2010 | by debwitter | Published in Uncategorized
I found out this week that a boy who underwent a bone marrow transplant died from an infection shortly after receiving his transplant. This was very sad news.
It has been a point if great travail as to whether or not I should publish what I have found regarding transplants. I do not know [...]
June 12th, 2010 | by debwitter | Published in Uncategorized
It was a good break from my compulsive stuck attention on the Oprah competition to go out and participate in a fund raising event for pediatric cancer.
We went to a wonderful event sponsored by The Pediatric Cancer Foundation. Business people volunteered to have their heads shaved to raise money and the foundation wanted cancer [...]
June 3rd, 2010 | by debwitter | Published in Uncategorized
Oye Vey, I have been consumed by this competition where the winner gets to host their own TV show. My votes have not been that high even though I have been promoting my audition tape and link. Now I am working the social network sites to garner more interest. In some ways [...]
May 31st, 2010 | by debwitter | Published in Uncategorized
Hi,
I did something I have never done in my life. I am in a competition for a TV show. The contestants put together an audition tape. Then they submit their tape for approval on the Oprah Winfrey Network (new cable channel launches Jan 2011). We are told to promote the video. I need [...]
May 19th, 2010 | by debwitter | Published in Uncategorized | 1 Comment
I had to stop giving Kayla the anti-fungal for her nails because she started getting stomachaches for several days in a row. Today I decided not to give it to her anymore and she still had a stomachache tonight! Darn. The nail fungus has improved from the medication, I just know if she took [...]
May 16th, 2010 | by debwitter | Published in Uncategorized
We left for Cape Coral around noon and arrived at the hotel about 2:20. Beautiful place, The Mariner Resort. That night was a basketball game at Earnest Graham’s high school. It was the Tampa Bay Bucks against some alumni and professional basketball players. Earnest played on the team representing his school. What fun this was. [...]
May 12th, 2010 | by debwitter | Published in Uncategorized
Wednesday May 12th, 2010
Kayla did not go to school yesterday but she wanted to go today. Her only stipulation was to skip PE, which sounded fine to me. You see in the picture below that they bandaged the area pretty good. She has never had a bandage like that before. When we took it off [...]