Monthly Archives: February 2014

Day -11: admitted

Nadia has been fighting for her life for a while, but today things stepped up a level. Nadia was admitted to Children’s hospital today, and had her first test dose of chemo. Full doses start tomorrow. Nadia made a grand … Continue reading

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Day -13: some downtime

We had a nice, low-key weekend. Nadia has been full of beans as usual, terrible 2’s really put a parents patience to the ultimate test! We enjoyed the weekend of no appointments and even an entire PJ day. 🙂 We got … Continue reading

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Day -17: More specialists and a change in plans

What do you mean Day -17? Wasn’t yesterday -15??? Can’t you count? There was a bit of a mixup with one of the chemo drugs and they needed to order more. So our Day 0 has moved from Feb 21 … Continue reading

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Day -15: many specialists, more tomorrow

Yesterday we had a bit of a lull in the morning and went for a brisk walk. It is cold (for Vancouver), but sunny! We then went back to Children’s to see Dermatology. Today was jam-packed. We only saw 3 … Continue reading

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Day -18: Yesterday’s Swab Event, CVC line in, bloods

Thank you everyone who came to the swab event yesterday. You really made a difference. Hopefully one of the people registered will be lucky, and be picked to be a hero for Sophie or Nadia or some other lucky person. … Continue reading

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Day -20: Tomorrow it begins – Don’t forget the Swab Event!

After a relaxing morning we headed out to Tsawwassen centennial beach to go for a walk with some friends. There was some confusion and we both ended up at different beaches in different cities. Oops. Sorry! We met for some … Continue reading

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Day -21: Arrived in Vancouver

What a perfect day to drive from Kelowna to Vancouver. After 2 days of steady snow in Kelowna, and storms up in the mountain passes, and an alternate route just recently reopened from rock-slides, we had nothing but blue skies! … Continue reading

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