A Lil Lytnin' Strikes Lung Cancer

I was surprised and a little embarrassed to see that I have my every-other-week clinical trial checkup  on Monday , meaning it has been alm...

Having been through the halo version of SRS (stereotactic radiosurgery) and the fancy new frameless "Edge" technology, I defini...

My amazing little girls just turned four, and I was thrilled to share this milestone with them. There was a time not long ago when I doubted...

I've been reading a book as research for a wonderfully terrifying endeavor Jason and I are working on* and I came across a section that...

I am taking a break from talking about lung cancer to write a post in honor of my amazing daughters. These little fighters came into the wor...

Tomorrow little Z will turn three years old. In keeping with tradition, I made him a birthday hat. As I had hoped, he designed it himself th...

As the shock of raising two babies at once (with an almost 3 year old in the mix, too) is wearing off, I am starting to see a lot of wonderf...

The girls had their monthly weight check, and their weights are now 10 lbs 10 oz for Autumn, and 9 lbs even for Mikaela. They are progressin...

In what is both the strangest and cooled birth gift I've ever received, my sister bought a DNA test for the girls so we can determine wh...

May 1 is the girls' official due date, and they are almost 8 weeks old. Weird. They are now 6 lb 8 oz and 7 lb 9 oz. I can't even i...

While Mikaela has been enjoying settling in at home, Autumn decided to take matters into her own hands, and removed her feeding tube.  Oh, ...

I'm home with a cold today, so Jason is spending the day with the girls. He sent me a text with this picture. Do you see what I see (or,...

Yesterday morning I got a call from the NICU telling me that they were taking Mikaela for an echocardiogram because has a heart murmur and w...

I have been repeatedly told that the NICU experience is an intricate dance of "two steps forward, one step back." After what has b...

When I arrived in the NICU today, I was shocked to discover that they had opened the lids to both girls' incubators. Wow, what a great ...

Late Tuesday night (March 8), after a dramatic emergency c-section (let's just say I am very grateful I was in the hospital), our beauti...

(Big sigh of relief) We have made it to a major milestone, 32 weeks pregnant (the point at which survival and disability rates greatly impro...

These past few weeks in the hospital have given me a very simplified way of approaching each day. Essentially, my one purpose right now it t...

I was joking with Jason that I kinda feel like I'm in a minimum security prison. He told me that he saw a special on a minimum security ...

Answer: In the hospital. Yes, this pregnancy has been quite crazy, and now it looks like I will be in the hospital until the girls are born,...