“How Can I Help?” Quick Links! Purchase and/or share our fundraising items Provide a direct financial donation via PayPal, Ko-fi, Venmo (@jamie-chambers-4), or Cash App ($jamie1km). Give blood and platelets through Atlanta Blood Services Join the National Bone Marrow Donor Registry Hello and Happy New Year! It’s been a rollicking start to the new year, which included multiple strains of flu […]
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GVHD Round Two
Personal Update“How Can I Help?” Quick Links! Purchase and/or share our fundraising items Provide a direct financial donation via PayPal, Ko-fi, Venmo (@jamie-chambers-4), or Cash App ($jamie1km). Give blood and platelets through Atlanta Blood Services Join the National Bone Marrow Donor Registry GVHD Round Two It’s been a while since I’ve posted a general update on Liz’s […]
Game Plan
Update“How Can I Help?” Quick Links! Sign up to provide a family meal or other help via Meal Train Purchase and/or share our fundraising items Provide a direct financial donation via PayPal or through Facebook Give blood and platelets through Atlanta Blood Services Join the National Bone Marrow Donor Registry Short Version After achieving remission by chemotherapy for […]
Probing Questions
Update“How Can I Help” Quick Links! Sign up to offer a family meal or other help via Meal Train Purchase and/or share our fundraising items Provide a direct financial donation via PayPal Give blood and platelets through Atlanta Blood Services Liz is in the hospital today, back in the Bone Marrow Unit that served as her […]
Playing Clue
UpdateI’ll let Liz tell what she’s going through in her own words: Liz has gained weight, though it was clear from how puffy and swollen she looks that it’s primarily fluid retention (water weight). She’s been having pain in her legs, joints, and terrible headaches—yet she’s determined to not rely on prescription painkillers anymore. The good news […]
Remission: The Hard Part
UpdateLast week Liz had her Day 100 post-transplant bone marrow biopsy. Yesterday I tweeted this: FULL REMISSION, Y’ALL. #fun4liz — Jamie Chambers (@Jamie1km) October 4, 2016 I’m savoring that moment, a relief I can’t properly communicate with words. Every single meeting of this kind up until yesterday came with bad news. Yesterday’s news was NO CANCER. […]
Rough Waters While Rafting Down Cancer River
UpdateObligatory “How Can I Help?” Info As things get easier we’ll be asking for less assistance from the outside world, but for those wanting to know “How Can I Help?” we still gratefully accept it when offered. So click here to read it in detail or check out the quick links below. Otherwise skip ahead to the current […]
Parole
UpdateOut of the frying pan, into the fryer! As I write this, Liz is finishing up her final take-home prep so she can receive her discharge papers. After five days we’re leaving the Bone Marrow & Transplant Unit at Northside Hospital! Liz has taken the transplant really well. She had body pain for a few […]
Changing Blood Types At 19
Personal UpdateLiz turned 19 years old one month ago. This year is the first Presidential election in which she can vote. She could buy cigarettes if she was dumb enough to start smoking (she’s not). She can enjoy all the privileges and responsibilities of adulthood except drinking alcohol—something she’s currently forbidden to do anyone under the rules of […]
Happy Birthday, Liz! You get a bone marrow transplant.
Personal UpdateLiz turned 19 years old today, a bittersweet day. (Please leave a Happy Birthday message in the comments or send her one on Twitter!) Watching her fight a deadly disease has made the celebration of her precious life all the more important, but her lifestyle restrictions mean she can’t do some of the things she would […]