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Archive for January, 2007

January 29, 2007

Monday, January 29th, 2007

Happy Birthday Andrew Paul Hutchison! You are four years old today. We love you and we are so proud of you! I can’t believe that you are four and then again, I can believe it, because sometimes you act like you are twenty. I’m know I’m not supposed to label, but you are FUNNY. So […]

January 29, 2007

Monday, January 29th, 2007

Sam was admitted to the hospital this morning with a fever of 103 and feeling generally miserable. We did a chest x-ray to rule out pneumonia – haven’t gotten it back yet. He needed blood and platelets today and his ANC is 230 -we’re hoping on the way up, not down. Argh. I wish he […]

January 26, 2007

Friday, January 26th, 2007

We had some good news today. We sent the scans out and the head of radioligy at another institution (don’t want to start any radioligy wars here) would have called our scan clear or at least significantly improved. Hallelujah! We are so happy. This doesn’t change much in terms of treatment but it sure as […]

January 19, 2007 (two year anniversary of Sam’s diagnosis)

Friday, January 19th, 2007

The Scan (mom’s viewpoint at 3am)   We had a 7:30am MIBG scan this morning and we left at 7:20. I was panicked because I know how Loreen (our favorite tech) has to stay on schedule and I asked her to schedule us first thing. I put a sleeping Sam wrapped in a blanket in […]

January 19, 2007 (4pm)

Friday, January 19th, 2007

Well, though it sure looked good to us, the official report says it is stable disease in the left femur. There is still uptake. Dr. Willert says it’s impossible to gauge whether or not the lesion is smaller with an MIBG scan. Either there is uptake or there is not. We’ll have to do an […]

January 11, 2007

Thursday, January 11th, 2007

Our scans are scheduled for next week. They’ll be on Wednesday and Thursday and we’ll be in doing chemo anyway so the timing actually works out. Dr. Sholler wants us to do at least a couple more rounds of chemo regardless of what the scans tell us. I was really hoping Sam would get a […]

January 4, 2007

Thursday, January 4th, 2007

Happy New Year! We had a fun New Year’s Eve at Darcy and Mike’s house. There were plenty of kids and they all had a ball. Darcy and Mike’s house is kid’s paradise. The best part of my night was right before we all watched the ball drop in New York (9pm our time)- the […]