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The three kiss-offs / June 8, 2014 / Leave a comment

They have cast off restraint in my presence. Job 30:11

In the period just before she entered hospice, I heard Laura ask visitors if they’d heard about the “three kiss-offs” she’d received from…

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The three kiss-offs / April 3, 2014 / Leave a comment

Did you know?

 Radiation treatment resumed six days after Laura came home from the fly-by.  She still had 14 more times to go….

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The three kiss-offs / February 24, 2014 / 2 Comments

Another needle stick

August 2009.  After radiation, Temador, and Avastin all failed to stop the tumor, and the surgeon had reduced the mass…

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The three kiss-offs / February 23, 2014 / Leave a comment

Visual cut: the bank door

I still wince when I remember what happened to Laura about three months after the flat-tire incident when we took the…

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The three kiss-offs / February 22, 2014 / Leave a comment

Visual cut: the jughandle

When Laura went back to work in March 2009 because Avastin had shrunk the tumor, she had a slight cut…

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The three kiss-offs / February 20, 2014 / Leave a comment

Aphasia: the phases

Aphasia told Laura there was a problem.  For years she would sit next to Anne Mei on her bed and…

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The three kiss-offs / February 5, 2014 / Leave a comment

Visceral pain

Gastrointestinal turmoil.  That’s probably more than Laura would want me to say about the effect that Decadron had on her….

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The three kiss-offs / January 27, 2014 / Leave a comment

The three kiss-offs: what happened

September 2009.  Because we lived more than an hour away from the hospital, Laura went to a local imaging facility…

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The three kiss-offs / January 27, 2014 / Leave a comment

The team: three kiss-offs backstory 1

The surgeon had said that we would meet with his team the week after the biopsy. We thought that meant…

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The three kiss-offs / January 27, 2014 / Leave a comment

The fly-by: three kiss-offs backstory 2

Towards the end of the second week of the initial course of radiation, Laura started complaining that her surgical site…

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