Category: The Samantha Years
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You Can Pick Your Friends and You Can Pick Your Nose
Samantha now has a PICC line. It’s a catheter that runs up to the entrance of her superior vena cava down her arm and out like the tip of an IV line. When your getting a lot of IV meds and blood draws, it kind of makes sense. They can just come up to the…
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I Now Have a Reputation
So, when you’ve spent WEEKS in Children’s, you learn the ins and outs. You learn that it really is ok to question the docs, disagree with protocol and push back. I’ve been pushing back. Nothing extreme….I’ve insisted we get Infectious Disease involved. I make lists and ask for follow up…we’re running the business of getting…
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Fine, I’ll guess we’ll stay a while
So, we almost made it a year without any unplanned hospital stays….. We’re at Children’s this week. Samantha is fighting an infection but we haven’t been able to find the source. She’s been in a lot of pain and spent yesterday with a 104 degree fever. Last night took us from our ‘penthouse’ on the…
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Mudslinging
I got third in a writer’s contest! I get a $25 gift certificate and to sit with the author at our writer’s lunch. Free lunch! Whoo hoo! The rules of the contest were….you had to invent your own fad, it could be no more than 250 words, and you had to incorporate the following words:…
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Samantha the Mermaid
Rub a Dub Dub….I like the Hot Tub….I think Pops shoulder and a hot tub…life is good! I’m Queen of the World! My Mother is a Floating Head So it’s an interesting thing….after these pictures were taken, Samantha had a week of seizures that were really hard to control. We ended up in the emergency…
Samsmom: Life, Joy, Loss and Loving your Mitochondria 