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living in the aftermath

making a deal i can keep

on August 28, 2010 in Faith

Tweet It’s not very often that someone will ask a question and I know the answer to it. I’m usually asking the kids answers to questions about square roots and wind velocity. But I happen to know this inside out. Sort of depressing, but I do know it. Peyton’s cancer. She’s finished her second year [...]

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penny for penny…unless you don’t do math and then you’re screwed

on June 1, 2010 in aflac cancer center

Tweet I spent a lot of time waiting on doctors today. Something I’m pretty used to doing. Before I was the “coma mom” or the “wheelchair mom”,  I was always the “cancer mom”. I had two healthy legs and two healthy arms and if THIS is the price I pay for my daughter’s healthy body, [...]

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Happy First Anniversary, Peyton

on November 12, 2009 in Faith

Tweet It’s been a year. A year since I handed Peyton her last dose of chemotherapy medicine and she downed it like a champ. A year since the clock started ticking….the one that counts off the days to five years. She’s finally gotten to the age where she’s got more days off-chemo than on-chemo in [...]

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There’s not enough candy in the world for this much crazy

on November 5, 2009 in The stuff that sucks

Tweet Peyton had an oncology checkup on Tuesday. I had the pukes. They rescheduled it for Wednesday. I still didn’t feel like I was safe to be around the immune-compromised kids, so I canceled that one too. Now, we wait until next week to see her doctor and get her bloodwork. And I’m sort of [...]

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Only The Best…Nothing Else Will Do

on October 19, 2009 in aflac cancer center

Tweet In the days before Peter took the job that brought us to Georgia, we drove north to check out the hospital. We couldn’t even consider moving until we felt safe in our choice that SHOULD we need a hospital for treatment again, Peyton would have the best options available. We got a grand tour [...]

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Free: Adjective or Verb?

on October 13, 2009 in The stuff that sucks

Tweet There’s been the occasional question of what “Free Anissa” is supposed to mean.  As I can tend to blather on until someone no longer cares, I try to keep it fairly brief in explanation…Twitter blockage, end of cancer, a new focus, blah blah blah. But, I clearly had great expectations for this new blog…it [...]

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