This is going to be really short as we have to leave in a few minutes for mom’s final chemo treatment. In the next couple weeks she will have a PET scan and an MRI done to determine where we are at with her cancer and if further treatments are going to be in order….
Jodi has to head back home tomorrow morning and mom is feeling pretty down about that. I think this has been the best visit for mom. She and Jodi have spent a lot of time together this trip. They sorted through mom and dad’s things, deciding what to give to AmVets, what to keep and…
[getty src=”AA047534?et=E8nT1XnEQFph_cQdwGl8nQ&sig=KlxvdSJGZsu1xDfnmgSL6W4yvAn8VUyjZbDuZaA2eWs=” width=”417″ height=”461″] You expect after losing someone you love that holiday’s will be difficult. This holiday might not rank very high on the list of the difficult holiday’s to get through for most people, but it is for us. My father was a veteran and dearly loved Memorial Day. His tradition was to…
Mom really loves it when family and friends visit her, especially ones she has not seen in a long time. Of course she understands that not everyone is in a position to be able to visit, but she sure would like it if they were. My mother’s niece (and next in line for the matriarch…
Mom is back home from the hospital. We still are not sure what was going on because of the two different stories we were hearing. It may have been her gall bladder or it may have been her liver causing the pain and nausea. Mom is still experiencing some nausea, but no vomiting so for…
If you were to cut off your finger, you’d go to the ER and the doctor would say.. yep I see you cut off your finger. The pain you are feeling, the nausea you are experiencing and all the bleeding are definitely because you cut off your finger. Internal medicine seems to be more tricky….
Dear Mom, Life has changed in unimaginable ways for you in the past few months and life will continue to change for you and the ones you leave behind when you complete life’s journey. There is one thing that has not changed since the moment Jodi was born, that is your incredible work as a mother. …
Sorry for not keeping you up to date on the situation. I had to work a 10 hour shift at the fairgrounds yesterday, starting at 5am. I stopped by the hospital after work, but I was so sore and tired that I came on home, took a shower and slept for many hours 🙂 So…
Spent the night at the emergency room, just got home about a half hour ago. Unfortunately I did not bring mom home with me. She will be staying in the hospital for a couple of days. She started having some serious pain yesterday evening and it wasn’t going away with the medication she has so…
Standing upon the earth of the past, remembering things I never knew. I have heard many wonderful things about you two. How I wish I could have known the both of you. Gil, you had gone before I arrived and although we never met I feel a special connection to you. I had a dream…