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Today, for the first time ever, John took Emmett to Purdue for his quarterly staging appointment without me. He only ever took Lucas once without me, so this is only the second time ever that I’ve missed a Purdue appointment. For a million reasons big and small, it just didn’t make sense for us both …
About two weeks ago, it became clear that Emmett was having that problem again. You know. The problem with his… erm… peep. That same day, his oncologist called to say that she needed some updated blood work to authorize his chemo refill, so we trundled off to the vet to have the CBC done, along …
This post is {technically} the 1,000th post on my little blog! I say {technically} because, well, technically there were a whole bunch more before I had a backup system in place. And, as usually happens when there’s no backup system in place, I lost a whole bunch of posts–some in draft form, some published–during a bizarre …
At his checkup yesterday, Lucas was amazing. He has come so far since those early, fearful, aggressive days when the front desk staff would have to clear the lobby just for Lucas to even walk through the door. No, yesterday, he nailed it. Dogs on flexis, big dogs, little dogs, owners on their cell phones… …
As we get ready to depart – this weekend! eeee!!! – I wanted to share the final details of Emmett’s road trip (item #10 on his Bucket List). The map and dates are all below. If you’re near the locations of the events, shoot me an email so I can send you the details to …
I’ve thought of half-a-dozen ways to write this, but it always comes back to this: Emmett isn’t going to get better, and our hearts are broken. The oncologist explained the spectrum of the disease. There’s the far end where the tumor originates from the skin, and if it’s caught early, before metastasis, surgery can often …
