Colin Loves Tractors » Dr. Merchant

Operation Radiation

Mom — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 04:45:57 +0000

Colin’s final radiation treatments found us at Methodist Central, an adult hospital not far from St. Jude in midtown Memphis. The final dose of radiation was delivered on Saturday morning, when a normal child of his age is watching cartoons. We are in the home stretch of our time here in Memphis and the more [...]

Predator vs. Alien

Mom — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 06:08:38 +0000

Since finding out about Colin’s blood clot, we have settled into a normal non-medically intense lifestyle punctuated by the possibility of crisis. On Superbowl Sunday, Colin became inexplicably agitated and then very spaced out, eyes unfocused and suddenly falling asleep sitting up. The pseudomeningocele on the back of his head had become an even larger, [...]

Graceland in the Rain

Mom — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 06:42:47 +0000

Tennessee has been inundated with rain, and Sunday was no exception. Aidan was on a mission from his school back in Connecticut to take his class pet/take-home assignment on an adventure and then report back on it. We had no choice but to take “Elvis” the frog (stuffed animal, not live or, worse, soaked in [...]