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One year ago today around 1:30 in the morning the house phone rang. It was the Palliative Care nurse calling. My husband, Robert, had passed away. It was 11 months after his emergency surgery for a ruptured colon and subsequent Stage 4 Colon Cancer diagnosis. Just 3 weeks shy of Robert’s 49th birthday. Only 2 weeks after […]
Everyone can list some of the “big” things you miss when your spouse dies but it is the little things I find myself missing the most. Those little things frequently pop up when least expected and usually hurt more. In no particular order – Bug Killing – Robert was the designated Bug Killer in the […]
Every day after Thanksgiving Charlie asked when we could decorate the tree. It was something I was dreading this year. Hubby had just died 2 months earlier. Decorating the tree was always a big family event for the 3 of us. The following Thursday Charlie and I started putting the ornaments on the tree. The […]
Well I made it through Hubby’s birthday and Thanksgiving. More about Thanksgiving later. Charlie and I are doing okay. We have our good days and not so good days of course. Charlie seems more resilient than me about missing Daddy. For Hubby’s birthday we didn’t do anything. Hubby’s sisters, nephew and great-nephew celebrated it in […]
It’s been awhile since I’ve posted the latest medical news about Hubby. In a nut shell, things aren’t going so well. The colon cancer is not responding to chemotherapy. It doesn’t help that chemo is frequently postponed due to Hubby’s low platelets. This past week they were down to 50k. Chemo can not be done […]
