Our family is still processing a medical diagnosis made on one of our very young ones this past week. The AML has been classified as "M7" or Acute Megakayroblastic Leukemia. It is very rare, and it is going to be a real bear to fight. It goes without...

It will be a very somber Thanksgiving at the Johnsons' this year. An unwanted guest has taken a seat at our table. That guest is childhood cancer. Last evening, the barely two-year-old extended family member I referrenced in Tuesday's post was...

It's been quite a week so far. Apart from what I do for a living (let's just say there's a whole lot of newborn baby pathology in Eastern N.C.), I've got one elderly relative with a shattered leg in a local ICU - after having had an MI at the wheel...

*Note to Readers: This post has been modified somewhat after the Sunday Morning coffee. **This post has been updated (see below). I spent the day with the YaYas at the Carolina Renaissance Festival in Concord. It was a glorious day. And I really...

(*11/19 Author's Note: A couple of my friends are not all that used to blogging. They are used to reading what I post every day or so . . . and have complained that they know I'm posting updates to this situation, but they cannot find them. Updates are...