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Feeling Greeeeeat in 2008! Clear Scans! Yeah baby! ! 
Welcome to Maddy's Web Page. Maddy is 6 years old and was diagnosed with Ewings sarcoma July 14, 2003. She will have 14 total rounds of chemo and had 3 ribs and part of her diaphragm amputated in October of 2003. She is kicking cancer butt and right now is cancer free. Maddy's famous saying is," I am Wonder Woman and I will save the World." I have no doubts!"
Journal
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 3:13 PM CDT I am so very happy, and relieved, to announce that we are still cancer free!!!! She has some scarring in her lungs from an episode of untreated pneumonia, probably when she had the chicken pox and the dr's just assumed her coughing was from the virus. That explains why she just couldn't seem to get better, why she was so tired, and also makes me angry to think of all the different times we brought her in to be told it was just a bug that had to run it's course. She did get antibiotics for strep throat and an ear infection around that time but they weren't the right meds she needed for pneumonia.
Her onc also thinks her tonsils need to come out, which I have thought for a long time. I begged her ENT to take them out when she had her adenoids removed but he just wouldn't. She snores something terrible and I think that is part of the reason why she is getting headaches. Her onc agrees so I will take her in on the 29th for a consult and hopefully get her in before school starts to have them out. Then once that is done she gets to start getting fitted for braces to straighten out her teeth. Poor kid just can't seem to catch a break.
Other than that everyone is ok. Donny and Donovan just got back from Cub scout camp and they had a good time. I am really glad because it rained the whole week they were gone. They didn't get to swim and fish as much as they wanted to but the BB gun range was inside so Donovan was in seventh heaven spending long afternoons with his dad at the range!
Maddy's camp is the first week of August and she is sooo excited to go. They are having a Hawaiian theme this year and a real luau with a pig roasting over an open pit and everything! Sounds like a great time. Hopefully the weather cooperates. It has been a very cool and rainy summer this year. Very unusual.
Well the kids will be back in school before you know it and life will get crazy again. I have gotten absolutely nothing done in my house this summer. I am so disappointed with myself. I just cannot seem to find any energy at all. I so wish that I could find a magic pill(a legal one) that would give me energy and stamina to make it through my day and get everything done around the house that I need and want. Dream on. Speaking of dreaming I need a nap. Scan day just wipes me out and today I am just exhausted. Maddy is already up in my room snoring away so I think I will go join her!
GOD BLESS!
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Hospital Information: MeritCare
Fargo, ND
Links:
www.hugsandhope.com
http://www.caringbridge.org/wi/christopher
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