Early this morning, while I was sleeping in his bed with him, I was awakened by a frantic team of PICU personnel rushing in the room!  Cristian was de-satting – his oxygen saturation dropped...

The couple of days after Cristian received what was supposed to be his last dose of chemotherapy of the Induction phase of his treatment, he started to have trouble breathing and had a hoarse...

It is time to go home.  We first have to have a final biopsy and lumbar puncture.  After that, we are discharge to go home and relax before our first clinic appointment.

We hung out on the oncology floor for a bit over a week after the port was installed.  Cristian was mostly in good spirits.  We played with the many cars he was given, watched...

Cristian got his port installed today.  This is a high-flow IV catheter port placed below the skin for receiving chemotherapy throughout his treatment.

After a stay overnight, the oncology team entered the room and delivered the news.  While not confirmed by bone marrow biopsy yet, the lab results are consistent with B-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia… Acute Lymphoblastic...

After a week or so of random fevers and complaints of pain, we took Cristian to the ER when his temperature rose quite high.  Initially, we seemed to get the issue under control, and...