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June 15, 2014

Father

Normally I would write a tribute to my father here. Today I am very tired and vilnerable,. I find that, deep inside, my heart has not ceased to weep my loss of him in this life. I know that I do ...


May 14, 2014

Continuation

Please read the previous entry first. There are some pretty good days, when the meds are working and my rate is down. Of course, I'm tethered to the oxygen -- those small portable units are not ...


Well, here I am. If a couple of doctors are right, I may eventually recover. If the othrr is right, not so much. .I've just (yesterday) had my fourth infusion, so today is pretty inactive. The pr...


May 02, 2014

WHAT?

The hospital sttement arrived today. $196,643,35. I'd have to discover a cure for poverty, aging, and stupidity to be worth that!


April 16, 2014

What does that mean?

I have left just my signature , as a comment, on some of your diaries. . This insults or confuses a few. What does it mean? It means that I managed to walk to the computer's room and to sit in...


February 27, 2014

What am I doing?

To me -- not much. According to daughters,-- lots. I am at home, still, for a couple more days, have a daughter here. Twenty days ago, my blood pressurre tanked and I flat-lined. One doctor told...


February 23, 2014

More update

Am able to sit up, feed self, stagger to bathroom sometimes. Feel very weak and out of it. Have Central line and chest tubes out. Am wearing t shirt. That feels rather human. Have even less visio...


February 20, 2014

Short Updte

Hospital 20 days. Very septic lung. crashed. 2 daughters traded off staying every minute. Intensley grateful. Very weak . Had first treatment for malt lymphoma. Malt lymphoma easiest cancer to ...


February 05, 2014

February 5, 2014

Hospital since Friday, January 31. Not good. Missing escape pod. Send rescue team.


February 04, 2014

mom

This is Lisa Karen's youngest daughter. Wanted to post an update for her friends. We had a close call. She is in the hospital and stabilized for now. We have a plan of attack developed and are g...


January 29, 2014

Patrishia

Has anyone seen anything aboout Patricia (Patrishia)? She was schiduled for some risky surgery on the 20th and I've found nothng about her since then.


January 28, 2014

No title

People have asked for a health update. Very ill after needle biopsy yesterday - high fever, chills, panting, a lot of pain in the place where the needle was inserted (a muscle where I already had...


January 17, 2014

None

Time for an entry, I suppose. The news from the cultures is negative. This means that they found nothing growing in my lung. The pulmonologist says that he has had a conference with some radiol...


January 02, 2014

Results - Nil

Once again, no answers. Pulmonologist says he did not find any cancer cells – nor any answers. Says the lung is full of great quantities of dead and live white blood cells. Wants to know what t...


December 31, 2013

Home

Checking in to say that I’m alive and home. So encouraged by lovely, thoughtful notes. Going down the list trying to make thanks personal. Sore throat last night but gone now. Nose filling thr...


December 29, 2013

The Night Before

I’ve been very busy staying busy. I’m a born and practicing coward and the scope and lung biopsy tomorrow is something I don’t want to think about. Three levels of fear – first, of the procedure ...


December 17, 2013

And, Still, Nothing

Some may remember that when I fell at the end of August, the emergency doctor, looking for broken ribs, discovered a clouding of my left lung, which he diagosed as pneumonia. After antibiotics, i...


November 15, 2013

The (Body) Language of Flowers

Texas has some weird weather. In late October, it got cool- very unusual. It rained a lot - very unusual. Then it got hot and dry again - Usual. The poor plants have a tendency to get mixed up ...


November 12, 2013

Make It at Mom's

Descendants and I gather several times a year to work on our scrapbook/photo albums. The activity has gotten a little …. tired? … lately. Half a month ago I sent out an e-mail recalling a forme...


November 11, 2013

In Flanders Fields

By Colonel John McCrae In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns ...


November 11, 2013

Belated Birthday

So sorry, my angel love. The first year ever that I've missed it. Daughters, grandson and partner came for holiday make and mend and left after midnight. I almost forgot. Several hours late --...


November 05, 2013

One step

I finally have an appointment with a pulmonologist - 10 weeks after the shadow was found. Of course, that appointment is another month away and I don't know anyone who knows this guy - just that ...


November 02, 2013

NoJoMo 1 and 2

What makes my family unique? Check out my prosebox book "The Befores" That whole thing is about my crazy ancestors. What day would I relive over and over? No thank you. For me, time is eit...


After waiting a week, I gave up and called the chosen pulmonologist with whom my PCP was to get me an appointment. Chosen pulmonologist is not taking any new patients. I don't know who was suppos...


October 24, 2013

Waiting

My primary doc was supposed to make an appointment for me with the pulmonologist last Monday. Here I sit, knowing nothing about that appoinment, and nothing about the shadow on my lung, on Thursd...


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