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 [...]
Archive for the ‘melanoma’ Category
Love and Family Surrounds Us
Posted in Cancer, melanoma on October 22, 2009 | 5 Comments »
The Napping House
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 [...]
Now on the update side.
Posted in Cancer, Chemo, Dogs, melanoma on September 26, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Every once in a while I return this blog to the more serious side of our lives. A health update on Bob is where my thoughts are today. All the scans have been read and we had the requisite visit to the oncologist for the run down. Updates should be in bullet form don’t you think? [...]
Did you miss me?
Posted in Gourmet Cookbook, melanoma on September 15, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Yes, I have been remarkably silent for the past few weeks. I have started and stopped so many posts that I am not sure where to begin again. I always promised myself that I would not apologize for not blogging every week. It seems like whining and I would never presume that my ramblings are [...]
Bob v.s Melanoma update
Posted in Cancer, Chemo, melanoma, tagged Chemo, melanoma on August 6, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Just a quick update. Bob was finally able to start chemo on Tuesday. We had become quite weary of going in for infusions, getting him all “hooked up” only to find he could not start. The first time it was an issue with when he could get his port inserted. The second week his white [...]
The Waiting Game
Posted in Cancer, Chemo, Family, Husband, melanoma on July 22, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Waiting can be rough for me. Or is it that I get a plan worked out in my head and don’t like it messed with? Maybe it’s both. Bob had a medical port inserted yesterday. It will be used for his upcoming chemo. We needed to get to the hospital at 8:30 for a 10:30 procedure. Looks [...]
Let me just set up the slide projector. It will only take a second…
Posted in Asheville, Cancer, Chemo, melanoma on July 14, 2009 | 3 Comments »
We are having a whirlwind couple of weeks with friends and family,medical procedures and test results, togetherness and loss.
Remember slide shows? Remember the inner groan you would attempt to suppress when someone suggested that we all sit down and watch their slides from their latest trip? Remember how it always took a lot longer than the [...]
Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto
Posted in Cancer, melanoma on July 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Two Cyber Knife treatments on Bob’s brain stem tumor down. Monday and Tuesday, Bob was in the hands of an amazing robotic radiation treatment. While melanoma is known for being radiation resistant, the CyberKnife is pretty effective at reducing the tumor it targets and often can “take it out” with it’s robo skills. Some very impressive [...]
Hair Today, Gone….
Posted in Cancer, Chemo, melanoma on June 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
You know the old joke right? Or maybe that was Hare today,Goon Tomorrow anyways….
here are my chemo/radiation hair loss thoughts for the day.
10 ways to hold on to your hair as long as possible when it is falling out by the handfuls.
1. Never actually wash your hair. (Your drains will appreciate this.)
2. No hats,hoods,do rags,caps or [...]
Yet another short and to the point
Posted in Cancer, melanoma on June 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’m sorry, I am having the hardest time sitting down and writing. It isn’t that things are going so badly or that I am frantically going from one thing to the next. It is more of a transition issue. A switch of gears or a change of direction that has me unfocused. I am like [...]
