Chan The Man

Our sweet little Channing has been diagnosed with ALL - Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. Thankfully the success rate with

treatment for this type of cancer is above 90%. Follow along with our story as we battle with cancer.

Monday, May 9, 2011

A Day at the Clinic In Pictures

I posted a few pictures on the post before with what we do in the clinic when we go but here is a fully documented photo journey of a day at the clinic. 

Height, Weight, Blood Pressure, Oxygen, and Pulse all taken.

 Once in the room the kids get to pick a sticker.  Then we put Chans stickers into his special sticker book (my kids are big into putting stickers on their clothes and I thought this would be a good way to keep his stickers).

Then the nurse comes in and gives him his hospital bracelet so they are always certain that he is given the right meds.  He loves his bracelets and gets really excited about them.


Then we wait.  We color on the chalkboard, watch cartoons, and play on the firetruck table. 


 Kris, the child-life specialist comes in and plays games on the IPad with Channing so he is distracted and not stressing out about the coming needle. 

Then the nurse comes in, nurse Abby (Channing loves her and talks about her all the time!), and does his pokes.  He doesn't even flinch anymore, he likes to watch it being inserted into his port, but it doesn't bother him. 


Then they draw blood, and give him VinCristine Chemo (IV drip over 1 minute) and after we are all done, about 3 hrs later Chan gets to pick out of the treasure box!

 Channing looks forward to the treasure box, and loves the things he chooses.  It is so nice to have him so well taken care of. 

1 comment:

  1. What a long and crazy day! I'm glad that there are lots of people to play with him and that he's having a "good" day.

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