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Having a kid with cancer is for the birds. Jesse has been complaining about pain behind her knee since Tuesday. Normally we’d chalk it up to growling pains and move on… Normally. Instead we go with that first while wondering in the back of our minds… Oh crap we are off treatment, please just let […]

Friday morning Jesse got a really huge treat. She was invited by her doctor to help with a St Baldrick’s head shave on the Hampton Roads show. Chris goes bald for St. Baldrick’s: wavy.com Then I took Jesse back home to Williamsburg, and took off to run the Towne Bank 8k in Va Beach as […]

Is the first thing that the urologist said to me as she walked in the room after keeping Jesse and I waiting an hour and half. By the end of our 30 minutes with her I felt the same as the day Jesse was diagnosed. Our day started great. Jesse and I were invited to […]

A little voice sadly proclaimed from the back seat Friday morning at 6:15am. “Why?” I asked, “we’ll be home tonight.” “Oh Okay.” Jesse and I were headed to clinic to have a checkup. By the time I was at the Lightfoot exit on 64, I realized I had forgotten a really important letter. So we […]

We did what normal sick people do… whoa. Exciting and scary at the same time, and we didn’t have to drive 104 miles round trip. (I am not complaining because there are many people out there that travel much further than we do) Tonight at 5pm, Jesse started screaming that her left ear hurt. I […]

We heard yesterday from oncology about Jesse’s kidney (I know I am behind… been busy working 🙂 ) Her right kidney flows great. In the left kidney, the nuclear medicine went through it partially hung until the lasiks kicked in. In the doctors’ minds this is not a blockage, and they feel that her left […]

Not much snow, but enough for the girls to have a blast. Last night when it started falling, they started begging to go out and play. I did make them wait until this morning. On the left is a picture of Jesse’s snow angel. She asked to make one last night, along with a snowman. […]

Right now I am so angry from driving home it’s not even funny. It took us 2 hours to get through the HRB Tunnel. The other option tunnel was backed up 13 miles. In Newport News, some lady tried to annihilate us on our way home tonight, then has the nerve to glare at me. […]

Saturday morning I woke up and decided I was over diapers. When I first told Jesse last Saturday that her diaper days were over, she pitched a fit. Her diaper had become her security blanket in a strange way. But I stuck to my guns. She has had a few accidents this week, but transitioning […]

Today we celebrate the end of Jesse’s treatment in clinic with her receiving a medal from the Baltimore Half Marathon (thank you Medals4Mettle.org), a “Way To Go!” balloon, and a t-shirts signed by every one.  “Wow that’s awesome!” most people will think, and yes it is, but its not over. Jesse is not completely 100% […]