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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Radiation treatment resumed six days after Laura came home from the fly-by. She still had 14 more times to go….
Another needle stick
August 2009. After radiation, Temador, and Avastin all failed to stop the tumor, and the surgeon had reduced the mass…
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…
Visual cut: the jughandle
When Laura went back to work in March 2009 because Avastin had shrunk the tumor, she had a slight cut…
Aphasia: the phases
Aphasia told Laura there was a problem. For years she would sit next to Anne Mei on her bed and…
Visceral pain
Gastrointestinal turmoil. That’s probably more than Laura would want me to say about the effect that Decadron had on her….
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…
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…
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…