Author: randymoser

At one point during these last seven months, someone mentioned the phrase “toxic positivity,” and we hope we haven’t given the impression that we’re living entirely on rainbows and positive vibes. (These are vital snacks, but the heavy nutrition of our days are made of less sweet stuff.) Pull up a chair for a minute […]

Tomorrow Jules gets several full-body bursts of radiation intended to make her bones a welcoming environment for our German friend and on Wednesday that friend comes to live with us.

It’s a cliché, but time is a funny thing. Like health, it’s something you only really notice when it seems thin, worn out or scarce. We can honestly say that we’ve been swimming in a new ocean of time. The militant routine of chemo – with its every-two-hour vital signs, infusions, transfusions, and needle pricks […]

The Panda Queen known as “Julie Moser” returned to the Kickass Command Post in Lebanon, NH, on March 17th to continue her reign of dominance over deadbeat cells already in retreat. The second round of chemotherapy, called the consolidation phase, is designed to collect and focus the cosmic forces of love that have poured in […]

Time has been kind to our family of misfits. We’ve had long, good days of listening to Julie’s playlist, which might be Public Image Limited one minute and Explosions in the Sky or Miles Davis the next. The minute she returned home (or, rather, right after Alvin assaulted her), Julie reached for her guitar, eager […]

Quick update about the timing of Julie’s bone biopsy because that test sets the timing for her next round of consolidation chemotherapy. Just as we were pleasantly surprised that Julie CRUSHED induction so hard that they had to release her early (or the love reaction would blow), we found out yesterday that her biopsy will […]

Jules continues to improve, using outlaw WWF wrestling moves to beat opponents into submission. Sores in her mouth have begun to make a steady retreat, she has scared away fevers for the past four days, and she is conquering the land of nadir like the badass Panda warrior princess she is! She also continues to […]

Julie is getting regular transfusions now, which should help her feel stronger, and the thrush has abated a lot. She still has the mucositis, which makes swallowing and talking a problem, and sores in her mouth and throat (from the thrush AND mucositis), but she’s eating as well as she can and getting plenty of […]