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March 17, 2017

It was March 17th, 2017 when Tom had his first oncologist appointment. He’d had his first PET scan that Monday the 13th. We met the oncologist, Dr. Thompson for the first time that Friday, just 10 days after the scope that found the tumor. I can remember people making comments Read more…

By tracy.hinton@gmail.com, 2 weeksMarch 17, 2023 ago
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Grandmama’s Mountain

When my grandpa passed away a few years ago, my grandma asked me to write a poem for his funeral. It was difficult to write a poem under those circumstances, but I did. A couple of years later, I got an idea for a poem for my grandma, so I Read more…

By tracy.hinton@gmail.com, 2 weeksMarch 15, 2023 ago
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Grandmama

I had a work meeting in Oklahoma City last week Tuesday-Thursday. As soon as it was over, I headed down to see my grandmother who had been put on hospice care earlier in the week. Shortly after I arrived, she passed away. Let me tell you about my grandma. She Read more…

By tracy.hinton@gmail.com, 2 weeksMarch 14, 2023 ago
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March 9, 2017

On Thursday, March 9th, 2017, Tom had an appointment with the gastroenterologist in the late afternoon to find out the results of the biopsy from Tuesday’s scope. Tom went to work that morning and I had kids that day in my child care. I made arrangements to get off early Read more…

By tracy.hinton@gmail.com, 3 weeksMarch 9, 2023 ago
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March 8, 2017

It was a Wednesday. I don’t remember much about the day other than Tom and I decided to go to Ponca City for dinner that night to distract ourselves from the worry and waiting for the test results. We went to El Patio and I had at least two frozen Read more…

By tracy.hinton@gmail.com, 3 weeksMarch 8, 2023 ago
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March 7, 2017

6 years 0 months 0 daysor 72 months 0 daysor 313 weeks 0 daysor 2,191 daysor 52,584 hoursor 3,155,040 minutesor 189,302,400 seconds That’s how long it’s been since the day we found out Tom had a tumor in his esophagus. In January of 2017, Tom had a CT scan that Read more…

By tracy.hinton@gmail.com, 3 weeksMarch 7, 2023 ago
grief and loss

Next few weeks

Over the next few weeks, some of my posts are going to be reflections of the days from six years ago when we found out that Tom had cancer. This popped up in my memories today: Tom posted it and tagged me in in on March 6th, 2017; the day Read more…

By tracy.hinton@gmail.com, 3 weeksMarch 6, 2023 ago
grief and loss

Do something that scares you every day

I was watching a YouTube video from Therapy in a Nutshell. She mentions doing one thing everyday that scares you. This got me to thinking. What scares me? Most everything scares me. Life is scary. (see Friday’s poem). This challenge really had me perplexed about what kinds of things I Read more…

By tracy.hinton@gmail.com, 4 weeksMarch 5, 2023 ago
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Book quote from “Encore in Death”

I just finished reading a new book by one of my favorite authors, J.D. Robb (pen name of Nora Roberts for her In Death series). The book I just finished reading was called “Encore in Death”. This lady’s husband was killed and she said this when talking to the main Read more…

By tracy.hinton@gmail.com, 4 weeksMarch 4, 2023 ago
Dating in my 50's

What we want now vs. what we want the most

Sometimes something you read in a book can just really make you sit back and think. This can be true whether it is a non-fiction book designed for that or just a passage in a fictional book you’re reading. The fiction book I am currently reading is called “56 Days” Read more…

By tracy.hinton@gmail.com, 4 weeksMarch 2, 2023 ago

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