A nurse came by today to teach us how to "flush" Ben's PICC line. Basically we have to inject some saline and heparin into each port every day to make sure the line does not get clogged up.
Ben is feeling pretty good. A friend came over to play with him, and he was out in the back yard climbing on the rock wall, going down the slide and swinging on the swings. So that was really great.
I am getting ready to go back to work. I'll start going in a little mid-week, and hopefully be back to full-time next week. I want to ease back in this week to make sure that Nicole can handle all the stuff we need to do with Ben.
Nicole and I started this blog to keep friends and family updated on Ben's fight against leukemia which began on May 8, 2007. If you want to make a donation to help Ben and other cancer patients, please click the links in the right margin. Thanks to everyone for your support and encouragement.
Links
- American Cancer Society
- Ben's Starlight Foundation Donations Page
- Camp Ronald McDonald
- Cedars-Sinai Donations (Please Specify Account No. 216620, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Fund)
- Children's Oncology Group
- Children's Oncology Group Donations
- Donate Blood
- Facebook Cause -- Cedars Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Fund
- Hockey Fights Cancer
- Make-a-Wish Foundation Donations
- National Cancer Institute Leukemia Page
- Pablove
- Starlight Children's Foundation
- The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society
- The Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Blog Archive
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- Who reads this blog, anyway?
- Thank you, Turning Point!
- Oops! (And thank God!!!)
- Bad News
- Preliminary Report
- The Big Day (?)
- Message of the Day
- No news yet
- Waiting for Big Test Results
- Hey Ms. Thomas!
- Steroids
- Thanks for the Comments!
- Great E-Mail to Scott
- The PICC Line
- The New Prescription
- Another One Bites The Dust
- The Waiting is the Hardest Part
- The Infusion Center
- Ugh!
- Some Test Results
- Blood
- Hello from the Playroom
- You want photos, eh?
- Back to Work
- Tuesday Report
- First Outpatient Visit, Part 3
- First Outpatient Visit, Part 2
- The Outpatient Stuff Begins
- Afternoon Report
- Sunday Morning
- Post-party, no depression
- First Day at Home
- We're Home!!!!!!!!
- Links Updated
- Sorry for the confusion
- No title
- Waking up
- Morning Update
- Another reason to love the NHL
- Starlight Starbright Children's Foundation
- Still on track
- Readership
- Pills, pills, pills
- More progress
- Thank You!
- Shots are done
- Morning update
- Ben's first post
- More good news
- Treatment, Part II
- The Longer Term
- Another good place to donate
- "pre-B"
- Some Great News
- Questions from Ben
- Aunt Stefanie, part 2
- No title
- Aunt Stefanie is working overtime!
- Open Forum Answer #1: Advance Signs?
- More on Donating
- Bone Marrow Test Results
- Questions about gifts and donations
- Neat e-mail
- First Blackberry Post
- Open Forum
- Treatment, Part I
- What Ben Has
- Introduction
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2 comments:
Hi, Ben! Great to know our Little Prince William's doing really well.
You are an amazing kid, and your smiles have touched my life in the most wonderful way.
I'll see you at the treatment center, little buddy :D
Dear Scott,
I'm a long time friend of Stefanie's and also grew up in Phoenix. I'm so sorry you and your family are experiencing this illness, and my thoughts and prayers are with you all and Ben. Thank you for sharing Ben's progress and experience with us. It is very inspirational. Warm regards,
Brenda
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