4th of July 2011

July 13, 2011
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0savesSave We were pretty low key this year for the fourth. We headed over to my in-laws house and had dinner. The kids played croquet until it got dark. Jahnna’s uncle taught her a card game and she beat him and two other friends of his. They were pretty surprised that an 8 year old [...]

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Treatment Plan for John’s #braincancer

July 7, 2011
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0savesSave We finally have a treatment plan for John’s brain cancer. We went to two different doctors and felt much more comfortable with the second one. The first doctor we went to seemed so impersonal. His office was a disaster. We were paraded past 10 people hooked up to chemo I.V’s with no privacy or [...]

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It’s my SITS day!!!

June 20, 2011
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0savesSave Welcome SITStahs! I’m so happy to share my corner of the blogervse with you today! I’m Erin for those of you who haven’t stopped by before. This is my crazy chaotic family. I married my husband John almost 9 years ago. Jahnna (pronounced Johna kind of like Paula) is 8. Can you say honeymoon [...]

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J-Tube Surgery

June 19, 2011
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0savesSave Colby had his surgery on Thursday. My laptop was being stupid at the hospital so I wasn’t able to post about it then. The surgery only took an hour and a half. We gave him some versed before he went back so he wouldn’t be anxious and would let them put his I.V. in [...]

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Jahnna’s Baptism

June 7, 2011
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0savesSave Jahnna turned 8 on May 24th. In our church children are baptised after they turn 8. She was a little worried that her dad would still be in the hospital for it. She didn’t want to postpone it either though. She’s a funny girl and when I told her there was a possibility of [...]

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My husband has #braincancer

May 30, 2011
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0savesSave There’s something I never thought I’d say. My husband has brain cancer. It makes me shudder every time I think it. To be more specific the tumor was a grade 3 oligodendroglioma. If you look that up 2% of all brain tumors are oligodendrogliomas. The doctor estimated it had been there 5 to 7 [...]

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Waiting

May 26, 2011
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0savesSave We’re still waiting on the results of the final pathology report. We have a partial report but I won’t get into that until I have the full report. It should be available when we go get his staples removed next Tuesday. I’m full of emotions and I can’t write about any of it yet, [...]

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Post Op Day #2

May 20, 2011
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0savesSave I got down here a little late this morning but it ended up being a good thing. John had a lot of insomnia last night and didn’t get to sleep until 6 this morning. He’s experiencing some things that are a little disconcerting to him. He realized he was afraid of being alone last [...]

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Surgery Update

May 19, 2011
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0savesSave John did awesome last night. The surgery only took an hour and a half instead of the three to four hours surgery time the doctor told us. It did take an hour of prep time to get all the brain mapping done first. The doctor is very optimistic that he got the entire tumor. [...]

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Brain Surgery Take Two

May 17, 2011
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0savesSave I never in a million years would have imagined that tomorrow would be the second brain surgery our family faced in a 9 month period of time. I never would have imagined my husband needing to have his right front lobe removed from his brain because the whole thing is a tumor. I never [...]

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