Ken Satterlee
Born – 3/24/1938
Died – 4/7/2014

Bev Satterlee
Born – 2/12/1940
Died – 9/7/2014

Journal Entries

  • Timex Mom

    She took a lickin’ and she is still tickin’. 3:30 am on Sunday September 7, 2014 – Why am I up at this ungodly hour of the day?  Just gave mom some Morphine and Ativan.  She was still responsive.  When…

  • Operation Mom Mover

    I owe you all an update.  Still tired, but did sleep last night.  Enough about me though 🙂 Mom is doing okay right now.  She is very annoyed with her current caretakers and with her own traitorous body, but otherwise…

  • My heart is aching so bad…

    This post was written yesterday (9/3/2014) 9 months and 1 day ago we found out my mother had terminal cancer, you would think that in that 9 months I would have gotten used to the fact that mom was going…

  • Return of Zombie Mom (dun dun duh)

    I haven’t penned a post in a couple of weeks and I know some day down the road I will regret the lapses in time between posts, but honestly, time flies way too fast and there is always too many…

  • If it’s not one things it’s another…

    Mom likes to say this a lot lately.  Well we ended up with yet another thing to worry about.  Early this morning I woke up to use the bathroom (haven’t been sleeping well lately because it too dang hot for…

  • Mom’s on pins and needles

    Mom’s on pins and needles

    That title makes me giggle… go figure. Most of the time I post about mom I think to myself, “Gosh, that post sounded really negative.  I hope people reading this aren’t getting the wrong impression about our situation.”  This thought…

  • Damn old people keep dying 🙁

    Top row (Left to Right):  Laverne, John, Mom, Wayne, Dad  — Bottom row (Left to Right): Tony, Carol, Peg This picture was taken several years ago at John and Carol’s house in Valley Center at their annual Christmas party.  There…

  • Is there shame in suicide?

    Interestingly enough, I think coming up with the title for this post was more difficult than the post itself, which is funny because I have tried to start this post many times.  Now that I have probably confused you let…

  • An Overactive Nervous System?

    Mom has been going crazy with this neuropathy thing and it has driven us to try anything and everything to find relief.  Her chemo oncologist referred her to an integrative oncologist.  Now you are probably wondering, as I was, what…