Nick just completed 6 week of Volumetrical Arc Radiation Therapy. For those of you that do not know that much about radiation, he received 5,400 Centigray to kill this tumor. This is the equivalent of …
The New Year started with two seemingly simple medical tasks that were to take place during one hospital admission: placement of a port in his chest and a 3-4 day in hospital chemotherapy treatment. The …
The one thing that makes battling cancer difficult is that everything about the journey is unpredictable. In Nick’s case we knew we were looking at 30-40 weeks of in-hospital chemotherapy and we had been through …
November 10th is supposed to be a good day and should be a day to remember. The day started in celebration and ended in absolute chaos, confusion and uncertainty. Joey (oil portrait on left at …
Neulasta and/or Neupogen are the brand names for a product made by Amgen that was administered to Nick to stimulate his production of white blood cells following chemotherapy. It is also known as G-CSF (Granulocyte-colony …
Nick underwent radiation therapy twice a day for 4 weeks and 4 days. The amount of radiation delivered to the location of the tumor was 5,500 rads. Intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) is method of radiotherapy …
I don’t think that there are enough words to describe how thankful we are for all that we have been blessed with. When I was writing about “darkness” and finding the light, the light came …
I think that there are always moments in our lives that are dark moments and we do as much as possible to set them aside. We don’t forget about them, we just put them in …
We are blessed to live in the 21st century and in a great age of technology. I read in a book once that if you are stuck in the middle of the ocean, you should …
Nick had a central line in his chest that was probably touched by human hands at least 1,000 times. He had the line in his chest for 9 months and it never got infected. Our …