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Thanks for visiting Ashton's website. Ashton is now off chemo as of March 7,2003. Ashton was diagnosed with ALL(acute lymphocytic leukemia) on September 15, 2000 and WAS on chemo for 130 weeks(2 and 1/2 years). We thank God EVERY day for her life and for her little sister, Haley. She is an active, beautiful blondie with a zest for life! She was/is considered low risk due to her age,white count, and the fact that she had trisomy 4 and 10(?some kind of extra chromosome of the leukemia cell?)
You can read about some of our journey in journal history (above).
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FOR TODAY--------(AUTHOR UNKNOWN)
To My Child...
Just for this morning, I am going to smile when I see your face and laugh when I feel like crying.
Just for this morning, I will let you wake up softly, all rumpled in your sheets and I will hold you until you are ready for the day.
Just for this morning, I will let you choose what you want to wear and smile at how perfect it is.Just for this morning, I am going to step over the laundry and pick you up and take you to the park and play. Just for this morning,I will leave the dishes in the sink and let you teach me how to put that puzzel of yours together.
Just for this afternoon, I will unplug the telephone and keep the computer off and sit with you in the back yard and blow bubbles.
Just for this afternoon, I will not yell once, not even a tiny grumble when you scream and whine for the Ice-cream Truck, and I will buy you one if he comes by.
Just for this afternoon, I won't worry about what you are going to be when you grow up, or second guess every decision I have made where you are concerned.
Just for this afternoon, I will let you help me bake cookies, and I won't stand over you trying to fix them.
Just for this afternoon, I will take you to McDonald's and buy us both a Happy Meal so you can have both toys.
Just for this evening, I will let you stay up late while we sit on the porch and count all the stars.
Just for this evening, I will snuggle besides you for hours, and miss my favorite T.V. show.
Just for this evening, when I run my fingers through your hair as you pray. I will simply be grateful that God has given me the greatest gift ever given. I will think about mothers who are searching for their missing children, the mothers who are visiting their children's graves instead of their bedrooms and mothers who are in the hospital rooms watching their children suffer senselessly, and scream inside that they can't handel it anymore, and when I kiss you goodnight, I will hold you a little tighter, a little longer. It is then I will thank God for you and ask him for nothing,
EXCEPT ONE MORE DAY!!
PLEASE KEEP HER AND ALL OTHER CANCER KIDS IN YOUR PRAYERS AND THOUGHTS. PRAY FOR HEALING AND SUPPORT RESEARCH AND FAMILIES GOING THROUGH THIS ORDEAL IN THIER LIVES.
Jesus truly lives in our hearts and in the air we breathe-so take him on in!!!
"Let your heart keep you joyful, be patient in your troubles, and pray at all times" Romans 12:12
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Journal
Tuesday, March 10, 2009 8:02 PM CDT Hi friends and family...
I just wanted to update on special milestones. Ashton has been SIX years off chemo on March 7, 2009!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As her mom,I can tell you that most of time, we feel like a NORMAL family, but a family that has had an extraordinary miracle- one that has forever changed us.
My hubby and I would tell you that we are NOT the same couple we were before cancer. It was so hard to discipline a kid with cancer. SO hard. But we truly tried the have the mindset that she was healed, so we tried to treat her that way. BUT, I can honestly attest to the fact that we WEREN'T a normal family. And as NORMAL as we TRIED to treat her, I KNOW we didn't, b/c we felt she was special, and still do. Both of our kids for that matter-spoiled rotten.
But so sweet. Our girls definitely have thier quirks, like everyone else, but in general, and 90 f the time.... we have sweet honest kids.
As ever, if you cannot take me bragging on my girls, then turn away......
Ashton is now ELEVEN and is turning hormonal, but it's all good. I actually LOVE seeing her grow up, even if it is moody at times! As scared as I am of the days when she is moving out and away from me, is as joyful as I feel to watch all this happen. But, we still have a little time!
She loves her dachsunds, Hershey and Snickers. She also loves to get on her sisters nerves.......although I do believe they are good friends. Secretly. She likes to read and is stuck on Harry Potter and all 7 Chronicles of Narnia. I am trying to get her out of that rut, b/c she NEEDS to read new books.Really. Amazing.... and the best part is that she talks to me every night....in secret.She is the "missions coordinator" for our Christian American Girl club.
Haley is NINE and is still curly headed and has the most pitifulbig brown puppy dog eyes. She has a very giving heart and truly looks up to Ashton. She still adores horses and has found a new love for quilting, which she has learned in co-op. Her first quilt was a gift to a baby in the hospital, sick with congential heart defects. It was baby doll sized quilt. She has come a long way this year in her reading. She actually brings and READS a book in bed each night...but I don't say a word. I am so proud! She is also very spirited.
Before cancer, I would have thought this really pitiful bragging, but now I think it is just another testimony to God's perfect healing. If not for Him, I could't say these things. I may not have had the ability to do so.
On a more perfect note, especially for those of you who have followed her journey since I created this CB site, my friend Khristy and her hubby, Corey, are expecting a baby boy this summer!!!!!!!! These are the parents of Kaitlin, Ashton's friend who passed away 5 years ago this week. This little boy is thier #2! He has been awaited for over 8 years!
As much as I want these things behind us, in our past, it cannot be and should not be that way. It all happened for a reason, some we know about and some we never will. It can sometimes STILL be an open wound that stings when I hear of someone new diagnosed or even someone who has symptoms remotely resembling hers at diagnosis.
I STILL LOATHE fever, spleens and livers. Oh and waiting for labs, that is the worst, still.
I LOVE that she is still here with us, breathing and her heart beating.
I STILL beleive I am one of the MOST thankful moms ever, hands down, the MOST THANKFUL!
Lori
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