Posted in Uncategorized on October 28, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Robert Karl Gustely April 28,1951 – October 24,2009 Resident of Asheville, NC. After a courageous battle with melanoma, Bob passed away peacefully surrounded by his loving family at his home in Asheville. Bob was born and raised in Akron, OH and graduated from Buchtel High School ‘69. Bob’s higher education took place at Ohio Wesleyan [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on October 24, 2009 | 12 Comments »
Robert K. Gustely 4/28/51 to 10/24/09
My darling husband moved from this life to the next today at 4:52 p.m. His peaceful passing was witnessed by his family as we sent him on with our deep love and gratitude for having had him in our lives. He abides with a Holy God and we are blessed.
Posted in Cancer, melanoma on October 22, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Our life as taken on it’s own quiet pattern in the last few days. It revolves around 24 hour medications given every 2 hours and sips of water or bites of food. He is particularly fond of the Butternut Squash soup we received from dear friends as well as 3 a.m dishes of vanilla ice cream. When Bob wakes we [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on October 20, 2009 | 6 Comments »
On Thursday of this past week, we invited Hospice into our home. When Hospice comes everything takes a shift. All the focus on treatments, cures, studies and negative treatment effects are dropped. With that also goes a lot of the striving for the next step. I suppose some would see that as a ending of hope, but it is [...]
Posted in Cancer, Chemo, melanoma on October 14, 2009 | 4 Comments »
The napping house. That pretty much sums up our house as of late. Bob is really feeling the effects of the last round of palliative chemo and the increase of the melanoma has slowed him down to one big long nap. If you add two dogs a rainy few days and the quiet snoozey quality of our house [...]
Posted in Meatballs on October 11, 2009 | 9 Comments »
I’ve been looking back at some old recipes lately. Sometimes the best things we make are the ones we have made for years. Perhaps it’s the change of seasons and the cooler temperatures of autumn that make me nostalgic. Whatever the cause, I have been enjoying the cooking memories.
In my cupboard, right above the salt cellar and [...]
