Skip to content
  • Home
  • About
  • Resources
  • Donate

#SamarStrong

Strength in Numbers, Our Journey Together with Samar

Month: July 2016

image
Support

7.31.16 :: Date Night

July 31, 2016August 1, 2016 Anna Ricafort Mendoza

Date night. What’s that? Boy do you miss those once parenthood gets going. And nearly impossible when you have a child with cancer. We are so thankful to have family […]

A lady never leaves without her purse. During today's walk.
Updates

7.27.16 :: And Now Back to Regularly Scheduled Programming

July 27, 2016July 27, 2016 Anna Ricafort Mendoza

Thank you for the prayers and thoughts sent our way. She is in a much better situation and no longer having any fevers. They immediately gave her more antibiotics to […]

Processed with VSCO with f2 preset
Updates

7.26.16 :: Back So Soon

July 26, 2016July 27, 2016 Anna Ricafort Mendoza

  There’s no such thing as getting comfortable when you’ve got a cancer kid. She’s been her bright, energetic self since she’s been home, slowing down for nothing at all. […]

Processed with VSCO with hb1 preset
Updates

7.13.16 :: Update

July 13, 2016July 14, 2016 Anna Ricafort Mendoza

What order do you prefer your news? Are you the type of person that likes to hear the good news first, and then the bad? Or the opposite? Well, in […]

Support

7.10.16 :: Fluttering

July 10, 2016July 11, 2016 Anna Ricafort Mendoza

  Before Samar was diagnosed, I would make donations to pediatric cancer organizations in hopes it would never happen to us or that we would ever need the resources of […]

Processed with VSCO with hb1 preset
Updates

7.9.16 :: Highs

July 9, 2016July 9, 2016 Anna Ricafort Mendoza

Remember when I said highs and lows?  Well her ANC count (white blood cells to fight infection) went from 0 (last Monday) to 28 to 420 (yesterday) to 1590 today. […]

Important to draw upon the small moments when you are going through the difficult days. Simple photos like this, do a lot to remind you of all the good that comes from things you cant control.
Lessons

Dealing with roadblocks and changes

July 8, 2016July 11, 2016 Genghis Mendoza

Somewhere in a dark room, the buzzing of a fan suddenly stops. A blinking red icon appears on the dashboard of a server administrator monitoring thousands of servers. It’s all […]

image
Uncategorized

7.7.16 :: Rolling With the Punches

July 7, 2016July 8, 2016 Anna Ricafort Mendoza

If there’s anything you learn in this process, it’s that you’ve got to learn to roll with the punches. For the most part, I want to think that I’m a […]

Recent Posts

  • 2017. April 29.
  • 9.26.16 :: A Quick Update
  • 8.25.16 :: Home Stretch
  • 8.11.16 :: Wait, Wait, Wait, Wait, Wait
  • 7.31.16 :: Date Night

Recent Comments

  • Anna Ricafort Mendoza on 9.26.16 :: A Quick Update
  • Nestle Panganiban on 9.26.16 :: A Quick Update
  • Trish on 9.26.16 :: A Quick Update
  • Nikki Goltiao on 9.26.16 :: A Quick Update
  • Tilly DiMaggio on 9.26.16 :: A Quick Update

Archives

  • April 2017
  • September 2016
  • August 2016
  • July 2016
  • June 2016
  • May 2016
  • April 2016

Categories

  • Lessons
  • Support
  • Uncategorized
  • Updates
#SamarStrong #PrayForOurSamar #StrengthInNumbers