Memorial Day - 3 day weekend!!!

Posted in Uncategorized by Jackie on May, 26 at 8:20 pm

I started out my weekend early on Thurs by running, er, I mean walking the 5k Corporate Challenge in Grant Park with the Johnson Controls crew. There were 24,000 runners. I think I finished 23,997 or something like that. Honestly, I was just glad to finish and not keel over(however, I do […]

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May 19-Cold Clubhouse

Posted in Uncategorized by Jackie on May, 19 at 6:07 am

We all have colds over here. It is this beautiful Chicago weather-70 degrees one day…45 degrees the next.
We will wait for Brad’s counts(blood numbers) to stabilize before returning for more chemo. He will do only 2 more cycles.

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Mother’s Day

Posted in Uncategorized by Jackie on May, 11 at 6:48 pm

Happy Mother’s Day to all you moms out there. We really deserve a Mother’s Month, but a day is nice as well.
I spent my Mother’s Day in the ER eating sandwiches from the NMH cafeteria while the doctors ruled out pneumonia for the cause of Brad’s cold. No pneumonia and we are home.  Thank God […]

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Cinco de Mayo

Posted in Uncategorized by Jackie on May, 4 at 9:52 am

Some people celebrate this holiday by overloading on margaritas, mojitos, and Coronas. Brad has been overloading on platelets and red blood cells. It has been a fun week of transfusions. Hopefully his marrow will start to recover from the latest chemo and start producing these cells.
Brad’s hair has begun to sprout again; however, I still […]

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