05/31/2010 by Sherrie Wells Memorial Day and memories of this day we will have. After 72 days since his transplant, Brady is back in the hospital (Robert Wood Johnson Bristol Myers Squibb’s Children Hospital) fighting a low grade temperature. It started out as a “normal” day, we were puttering around the house doing some landscaping… [Read More]
May Journal Entries
8 Years Later—Still No Cure for Pediatric Cancer – 163
05/30/2010 by Sherrie Wells We awoke this beautiful morning to some very sad news from Tracey Levine: On Saturday, May 30th at 3:10am our beloved son and brother, Mark Eric Levine took his last breaths in our loving arms. He is our angel now and will be forever with us. We love you Mark forever… [Read More]
8 Years Later—Still No Cure for Pediatric Cancer – 162
05/29/2010 by Michael Wells Today’s journal entry is dedicated to “Mark the Shark” and his family as now, more than ever, this family needs strength. Mark’s mom is asking for prayers this morning. she writes… Last night I heard Mark whisper in my ear, “I can’t breathe Mommy”. Through the night his breathing became more… [Read More]
8 Years Later—Still No Cure for Pediatric Cancer – 161
05/25/2010 by Sherrie Wells Well, I have some news. I’m told it’s not bad or good, we just need to change things up a bit. Brady’s engraftment percentage was at 98% two weeks ago. They were hoping for the same or higher last week. Well, it went down to 96%. I immediately started to panic… [Read More]
8 Years Later—Still No Cure for Pediatric Cancer – 160
05/18/2010 by Michael Wells We had another wonderful visit to CHOP’s day hospital today. My “oh, so proud” moment was when the nurse told Brady that she had to give him a needle in his hand. He held up his hand, looked at her, and said “boo-boo”. She confirmed that he would have a boo-boo…. [Read More]
8 Years Later—Still No Cure for Pediatric Cancer – 159
05/12/2010 by Michael Wells We have some wonderful news to share and some not so wonderful. First the good news and then we’ll move on to the other stuff. Brady is doing incredibly well. Yesterday, he had his weekly check-up at CHOP and didn’t even let out a peep when he was given an IV… [Read More]
8 Years Later—Still No Cure for Pediatric Cancer – 158
05/07/2010 by Michael Wells Just some GREAT news today! Brady’s has 98% of my stem cells running around his little body. His medical team would have been extremely pleased with 96% so they are just ecstatic over the tremendous results of Brady’s peripheral blood stem cell transplant. Needless to say so are Sherrie and I!… [Read More]