Saturday, August 30, 2008

Sweet dreams

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Steve is about to leave for his sleep study. He'll spend the night being observed in a lab at a nearby hospital. His pulmonologist is lo...
Monday, August 25, 2008

Getting stronger

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Steve has been riding a stationary bike a few days each week to start regaining cardiovascular and muscular strength. He showed off his impr...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Stable

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Today's MRI is identical to the one taken in June. That means there is no regrowth and no new visible tumor activity. Isn't that awe...
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Good scan

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No changes. Yay! More to come later!
Tuesday, August 19, 2008

MRI on Wednesday

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Steve's MRI is Wednesday at UT-SW. After the imaging, he'll have blood drawn, then we'll meet with Dr. M to get results. No matt...
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Sunday, August 17, 2008

Guest blogger Liz: Run for Steve update

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Hi, everybody -- just checking in ahead of the race for Steve. There are only four months remaining for those of us planning to run. With th...
Saturday, August 16, 2008

Just for fun

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Cory Robertson (left) and Steve Damm ATO AZD Winter 1989 party University of Michigan
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Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Eyes

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Steve, Katie and I spent three and a half hours in the opthamology clinic at UT-Southwestern this afternoon. (Cooper hopped on a jet plane w...
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Friday, August 8, 2008

Daddy-daughter challenge

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Katie had a rough night last night. She took hours to fall asleep and woke up multiple times. She was fussy this morning and glassy-eyed. Sh...
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Thursday, August 7, 2008

Super daddy and uncle

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Here is Steve, reading to Katie, Cooper, Brooke and Molli, all squished in a twin bed, after he worked all day, went with us to the pool and...
Wednesday, August 6, 2008

"Pray it gets a little smaller"

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Steve's appointment with his radiation oncologist, Dr. A, went about as we expected. Dr. A reviewed the most recent MRI (from June), che...
Monday, August 4, 2008

Green light for chemo (we think)

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We're not having the best of luck with blood draws. Today's order wasn't placed as "stat," apparently, so we didn'...
Thursday, July 31, 2008

Our village

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Some weeks we do pretty well on our own. Other weeks we require lots of help from others. This was one of those weeks during which we were d...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Multiple updates

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Blood counts 1. Steve's overall white count is 4.3, which is great! 2. His neutrophils, which were a problem a month ago, are also in ra...
Monday, July 28, 2008

No lab results yet

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Steve's first blood sample today (which took four sticks!) was contaminated once it reached the lab. So the kids and I took him to Plano...
Sunday, July 27, 2008

Worn out

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We're a little worried that Steve's white counts might be low after this week's chemotherapy. He is extremely tired again. He al...
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Friday, July 25, 2008

Chemo and steroids

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Steve is doing well this week. He's had no obvious reactions to the chemotherapy. We'll have a better idea of how his blood is react...
Monday, July 21, 2008

Chemo starts again tonight

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Steve's blood drawn today came back with numbers in good range, so Dr. M gave him permission to start Cycle 4 of oral chemotherapy and A...
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Thursday, July 17, 2008

Pulmonology report

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At long last this afternoon, Steve had a visit with a pulmonologist. The referral took a while to receive, and then the appointment was slow...
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Get your running shoes on!

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Steve is a veteran of the Dallas White Rock Marathon . He won't be in shape to run this year's marathon, but he should be at the fin...
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