Category: Earlier Chapters
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Day 7
Well we made it through our first week of treatment with relative ease. Brooke’s energy and spirits were a little low for a couple days at the end of last week – but to be fair she had had general anesthesia two days in a row, needles in her spine, her hip, and both hands,…
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Quick Update
Day 5 in the hospital, Day 3 of chemotherapy and Brooke is doing well. On Thursday she had surgery to place her central line, another lumbar puncture, her first dose of chemotherapy into her spinal fluid, and a bone marrow aspiration – all under general anesthesia. She was pretty sore and run down after all…
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Here we go again!
Dear Family and Friends, It seems that the Ballou-Buchanan tribe is embarking on another turbulant journey. Our little miss Brooke’s leukemia has relapsed. After 4.5 years in remission, I could hardly believe it when we got the news. And yet it’s amazing how quickly we fall back into the Cancer-curing mode. We’ve faced this before…
