Reflections of The Heart

Well right now all I can do is hope that I’m out of here by Friday so that I can make it to my cousin’s bonfire this weekend (if not, I truly may break something b/c I’m so f$&*ing sick of this messing with my life…seriously what am I saying…I have no life currently and [...]

Hey everyone.  Well still in the hospital…BUT good news is fever has stayed steady at 99.5 for 24 hours (YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) and chills have stopped.  I actually ate food that stayed down yesterday and the resident said this morning that my WBC count was higher than .001 (which it held steady at Friday and Saturday as [...]

in the hospital right now.  came in yesterday.  high fevers and chills.  currently have zero immune system (quite literally my blood counts showed no white blood cells which is why they immediately put me in the hospital).  Quite common in cancer patients.  Had a rough night last night…fever stayed steady around 103 and chills and [...]

Hi, Kara here…
I wanted to give everyone a really quick update.
Jo’s quite sick… I’m trying not to feel guilty about that as I visited with Strep, but…  Anyway, she’s in the hospital and will be for who knows how long.  Her white blood cell count is virtually non-existant… she ran around 104 temp all night [...]

Oops…I forgot I told Kara she could borrow my laptop to take with her to San Francisco last week, which is why there was no update on Monday…sorry…we did get all the results back and we were good to go (barely good to go, but good to go nonetheless) on chemo round 6…we’re supposed to [...]

Ok so today was the most perfect of fall days…perfect weather…found some perfect carving pumpkins…it was great…:o)  Just thought I’d share that )  On update notes…my counts are down…wayyyyy down…had to have a transfusion on Tuesday and we’ll check the counts again tomorrow and hope it helped enough to continue chemo next week.  (since [...]

Ok so I’m not even going to explain how I stumbled onto this website, it’s long, it’s convoluted, it’s a crazy story. However, ya’ll should really read the interview. I LOVED LOVED LOVED LOVED it and it was just a random, had nothing to do with what I searched for, cool page [...]

Hello all.  Sorry, it’s been crazy around here.  Right now I’m battling a hell of a swollen throat and major swollen gums (my remaining wisdom teeth we think which of course we can’t do anything about b/c of a. my lovenox and b. chemo…grrr like more complications were needed)…anywho that’s where I am right now…we [...]