Fallon turned 12 years old this week!!! We wanted to celebrate hard, because honestly last Fall we weren’t sure we’d ever see this day. We’ve been through some ups and downs this week—more ups, thankfully!! We saw Dr. Sue at the Veterinary Cancer Center on Tuesday. We’re on an every two month schedule now. Tuesday […]
Six months ago was one of the most difficult days we’ve had to get through—the day of my best friend Fallon’s x-ray revealing her osteosarcoma. There were tons of tears, constant research, lots of conversations with anyone with some level of knowledge/experience who would talk to us, lots of drinking…Six months ago I would have […]
Back into Focus
Fallon is a chemotherapy graduate! She completed her course of carboplatin on the day before Valentine’s Day. I could not have been more proud of her! She seems to feel really good. We go back for full body x-rays in 4 weeks. I am pretty nervous about these. I almost don’t want to know. Good […]
The New Normal?
So, we’re working this new normal. I’m still trying to figure things out, trying to make things better, trying to be efficient—but not in our prior “everything is a crisis” mode—all the time, anyway. I used to blog here every day, sometimes twice a day once I started, as there was so much to communicate. […]
Odds and Ends
We’re out to beat the odds. I am all over this. So much has been happening. Fallon has been doing GREYT, and we’re working hard to keep it that way. My focus is making this new normal run smoothly, and it gets better all the time. There are many elements to this, but it’s all […]