Earlier this month, we had a statewide Resource & Referral meeting. One of the sessions was on art and we had the opportunity to create. At first, I wasn’t going to do it, because that type of stuff is way out of my comfort zone. Then I remembered that I Read more…
I knew March was going to be challenging because of the minefield of memories that come up this month. I even made a plan for dealing with it. What I didn’t expect was losing my grandmother. Or wrecking my car (still waiting to hear, but it’s probably totaled). I’ve had Read more…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…