Category: Updates
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Victories and Defeats
Anyone who has faced a big life challenge knows that challenges are comprised of a series of victories and defeats. Cancer is no exception. Ups and downs… highs and lows… peaks and valleys… this is the cancer journey. Many of you are intimately familiar with this as you’ve been either a cancer patient or a…
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Bone Marrow Transplant
Greetings, supporters of Danny! Today marks the 9th day of Danny’s hospital stay, and the final day of his chemotherapy treatment. The doctors are very pleased with how well he has tolerated the chemo. He has received 3 more blood transfusions since my last update, for a total of 6 transfusions. As a reminder, this…
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Gratitude
Today was Thanksgiving. I love the idea of our friends and family all around the country gathered together with their friends and families to eat, drink, laugh, and give & share gratitude. I hope it was a wonderful day for you! While we spent this Thanksgiving in the hospital, we are very grateful that our…
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How we got here
Many of you have not heard the latest update on Danny. So, I’ll start there. Then I’ll share the timeline of how we got here. On October 6 of this year, we learned that Danny had a rare type of leukemia called CMML (Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia). Nobody wants a cancer diagnosis, but we actually felt…