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Zen Parenting Radio

“Leukemia Sucks” ~Maddy, Age 4, Cancer Survivor

Zen Parenting Radio

Todd and Cathy Adams

Education, Philosophy, Parenting, Self-improvement, Kids & Family, Society & Culture

4.8636 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2014

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

"Leukemia messed with the wrong girl in November 2011 - my then almost two year old daughter, Maddy. That was when my family's journey with leukemia began...."~Erin and Dan McCarthy Last month, Maddy became a SURVIVOR, after 2+ years of treatment. It was brutal - Maddy had 3 surgeries, over 50 rounds of outpatient chemotherapy (as well as hundreds of chemo meds at home), 10 spinal tap chemo injections, 4 blood transfusions, 12 ER visits, hair loss, 16 body scans, numerous inpatient admissions, and on and on.. Dan & Erin share their 2-year experience with their daughter's Leukemia and take us through all of the ups and downs of diagnosis, chemo, and what it means to be a survivor. Dan has also been nominated as a person of the year by the Leukemia Society.  Please consider donating (click here to find his page.)  Every dollar counts as a vote, and we would love to see Dan receive this tremendous honor (not to mention raise a ton of $$ for cancer research)! Erin is a professional photographer and if a listener books a session during the ten-week voting period, she will donate all costs to  LLS.  Find her website here. If you shop Amazon by going through our website first (there is an amazon link on the bottom right hand of our home page), a portion of your sale will help fund our Be U program.  Thanks for supporting us! Check out our new website & be sure to sign up to get all new podcast sent direct to your inbox @ ZPR. We would love to hear any comments from the show by sending us an email @ [email protected] You can be sure to hear more by liking our facebook page @ https://www.facebook.com/ZenParenting

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, here we go. My name's Todd Adams.

0:07.8

She's Kathy Adams. Welcome back, Zen Parenting Radio. This is a conversations with people we love

0:12.9

session. And we have Dan and Aaron McCarthy with us. And I met Aaron a long time ago. This is my

0:18.0

first time I met Dan, but I still love him. Do you? I do. Good.

0:21.3

He's in.

0:21.8

I do.

0:26.6

So why don't you start out and say, why did we choose to have Dan and Aaron on our show?

0:32.8

Well, actually, it's funny that they're doing this now because I had just been thinking about them to have them as guests.

0:39.0

Aaron and Dan, their daughter, Maddie, who is four, correct?

0:39.6

Right.

0:42.5

She is a survivor of leukemia.

0:47.4

And I love saying that word because Aaron had just put a post up on Facebook.

0:48.5

How long ago, Aaron?

0:50.6

Uh, it was mid-January.

0:57.6

Mid-January saying those very words that she was done with chemo and that she was now a survivor of leukemia.

1:00.6

And they, Aaron and Dan, have been through.

1:01.9

Helen back?

1:02.2

Yeah.

1:03.7

How long, guys?

1:04.3

Two years?

1:05.3

26 months.

1:06.6

Who's counting?

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