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January 30

I just wanted to post a quick update on where Jules is today. (This is her first full day off chemo!) Yesterday was a little scary (for me) because whenever nurses gave Julie blood transfusions – which she desperately needs as she enters the nadir phase – she would spike a fever. Because of the […]

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January 24th

This is the third day of Julie’s treatment and today is the last day she will receive the medication daunorubicin (or doxorubicin, maybe). (This treatment is commonly called 7+3.) We un-affectionately refer to this medication as ‘Donnie’ because normal people cannot pronounce or remember this name.  (We’re thinking of it as Donnie Osmond, mostly because […]

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mediport

Jules crushing the mediport implant.