I need a twin sometimes.  I’m following one parents making sure they are walking ok and next thing I know the other one is off and running.  Well not running, but you get the idea 🙂 Although this mornings escapades were a pitiful sight, I sort of had to laugh at one point.  That was…

Dad finally got warm enough for the shivering to stop, so I took him down to the pulmonary specialists office.  I think he was hoping someone might be able to see him when we got there, but I knew that wasn’t going to happen.  The point was to give a live person there a view…

Mornings are so much fun around here.  Mom gets a night of sleep and is feeling spunky in the morning, by contrast my father is still feeling tired and weak and coughing a lot.  This tends to lead to little arguments.  This mornings arguments turned into a something more and as dad went to take…

Now that I have caught up all the happens to current day, I can start getting creative with the post titles 🙂 Today was supposed to be a ‘free’ day.  No appointments.  So I was hoping that I could get mom up and at ’em early enough to do some much-needed grocery shopping.  I was…

Mom and dad have gone to the YMCA in Escondido for many years.  Monday, Wed, and Friday are gym days, so today being Wednesday was a day for the gym.  Mom decided she wanted to do a little bit of a workout.  Well actually I sort of misunderstood and thought she just wanted to use…

Today my mother has her one radiation treatment to take care of the brain tumor.  First I need to take her down to LabCorp to get her bloodwork done.  She is very nervous about the radiation treatment because she has to have her face covered with a mask to hold her head in position for…

My sister came to visit for a couple of days on February 16th.  Also that same day, Larry and Diana (my mother’s nephew and his wife) and David (my mother’s grand-nephew) came to visit.  Having family come to visit really made my parents happy.  Although mom was really tired and fought hard to stay awake,…

The only treatment that the oncologist had planned for mom is chemotherapy.  The hope was that chemo would reduce the size of the tumors on her liver enough to make life more comfortable for her.  She hasn’t really had any pain to speak of at this point, but the mass in her mid section has…

January began a new year and unfortunately more drama.  Mom had her liver biopsy done to see what type of cancer she had and what stage it might be in.  Turned out it was squamous cell, typically associated with skin cancer, but can also affect other soft tissue organs like the lungs.  I wasn’t sure…