“Tick-tock, won’t stop, around it goes Sand through the glass sure falls in a hurry And all you keep trying to do is slow it down, soak it in Keep trying to make the good times last as long as you can…” April 16, 2022: Michael’s post covered the gist…
“Life is but a dream…” Monday, 11 April – After a very bad night, Karen managed the ride in from home to Hopkins and back. It wasn’t an easy drive, but she had to do it so she did. The treatment cycle continues to grind along. Blood counts 11 AprilWhite…
“…Yes it’s time for you to stop all of your sobbing oh oh oh There’s one thing you gotta do To make me still want you Gotta stop sobbing now Yeah yeah stop it stop it….” 4/10/22: One week ago at this time, I was lying on my blue sofa,…
“… I see the way you’re actin’ like you’re somebody elseGets me frustratedLife’s like this…” So lets roll back two days….. Sunday, ….with help from our GREAT nephew Sam, we managed to pack up the essentials for the potential two week stay at the Hackerman-Patz Pavilion, conveniently located within the…
“Who was bringing up three very lovely…” Oops…wrong song… I started blog entries yesterday as we packed up and moved downtown and today as I began my new treatment regimen. Time got away, and neither is finished. Michael and I decided to make daily notes to ourselves while we catch…
“When we get through we needed a vacationWe wanted to party and get a little restSo we packed our things and headed out westWe got our surfboards took the beachball outJumped in a limosuine ready to ‘wipeout’…” Would love to procrastinate blog another day but there’s a danger of never…
“…It feels so good (swimming in your stomach) Wait until the dust settles You live you learn, you love you learn You cry you learn, you lose you learn You bleed you learn, you scream you learn…” Based on questions after Michael’s last updates plus changes made yesterday (and to…
“…And the night, the night is yours alone…When you’re sure you’ve had enoughOf this life, well hang on,Don’t let yourself go…Cause everybody cries…And everybody hurts sometimes…” One of the most annoying things and very human things most of us seem to do is try to relate to the moment. However, Cancer…
“….I’ve made my mindTo live until I die…” Greetings from the Twilight Zone. This was going to be a very short update; queue music 🎼… well probably not. Karen’s addendum to the last blog post highlighted the continued struggle with pain management stemming from her last bone marrow biopsy site….
“Taking my message from the veinsSpeaking my lesson from the brainSeeing the beauty through the…Pain!…” 3/10/2022: The rescheduled Chemo Cycle 7 (34) started on Monday. Karen and I both had mixed emotions about it. Karen tries to schedule for late afternoon for two practical reasons: First, we hate mornings! Second,…