May 7, 2013 | Uncategorized
we all successfully made it through the night. dad is hanging in there. he’s not doing badly, but like they keep saying, things are tenuous and he’s very sick and all we can do is wait and hope. whew. i slept out in the waiting room from 11 til 3 last...
May 6, 2013 | Uncategorized
things have been bad. i went to the hospital at 3:30 a.m. saturday morning, dad was agitated and doing really bad. things got better during the day, but on sunday they tried different things to relieve the horrible impaction in his colon and nothing worked. last...
May 4, 2013 | Uncategorized
“bring it on” was what i wrote. so, it was brought on. at 2:20 this morning, the hospital called. dad was agitated, they put him on the high pressure oxygen thing, he tried to get out of bed, very agitated. should i go there? no, said the nurse,...
May 3, 2013 | Uncategorized
today i was trying to think WHAT’S SOMETHING POSITIVE HERE???’ so that’s what i came up with. I AM NOT ON FIRE. so, yay for that.
May 3, 2013 | Uncategorized
i’m very very sorry to say that he’s spending it in the hospital YET AGAIN. mom and i took him to the doctor yesterday and they were insistent that he needed to go back in – dehydrated, and his abdomen is really swollen, etc etc it’s always...
May 1, 2013 | Uncategorized
trying to be positive and full of happiness today. i’ve secretly packed a pig ear, mollie’s #1 favorite treat, and another treat in my purse for the car ride home from the vet at the U of I. meanwhile, it’s may first and no banner yet. i hate...
Apr 30, 2013 | Uncategorized
and i found some photos on my camera from the end of march. whoops. but first, here’s a photo of poor little shortie, a very sweet and good little dog. dad loved him so much, and i know he’s heartbroken and misses him terribly. here he is, earlier in...
Apr 29, 2013 | Uncategorized
because i am going to MAKE SURE IT’S BETTER. the day after we found out the news about mollie, dad’s dog shortie, died in his sleep. this week is GOING TO BE BETTER. yes it is. mollie is doing totally fine, and today’s the last day of the week that...
Apr 25, 2013 | Uncategorized
ballard street, the crazy people at ballard street…
Apr 25, 2013 | Uncategorized
and just when we thought it couldn’t get any worse… they didn’t do the CT scan on mollie because they found that the reason her lymph nodes are so enlarged is because she has lymphoma. this is such aggressive cancer that if it’s not treated,...
Apr 24, 2013 | Uncategorized
my short term goal: to not wake up feeling anxiously anxious. i have no long-term goals right now. just gonna try to get through today. monday, after waiting and waiting and carrying my phone around and losing it and finding it again, finally, the vet called. she...
Apr 20, 2013 | Uncategorized
the vet called, YAY for that! the news wasn’t perfect – mollie isn’t perfectly fine – but we are now hopefully optimistic. they didn’t find any cancer cells, but there is the big liver mass in one lobe. could just be a benign mass. the...
Apr 19, 2013 | Uncategorized
this evening, when the sun finally emerged, we took mollie for a walk. she was delighted, but kevin and i wore our winter coats, and i was very happy that i’d decided to also wear my hat and scarf. kind of crazy, but at least everything is that fabulous vibrant...
Apr 17, 2013 | More Videos
This is a documentary about constructing a huge, elaborate wedding cake-type cake for my friend Randy’s 50th birthday. My friend Lori Ann, a marvelously talented actress and singer, helped me. Lori Ann performs a wonderful “Patsy Cline” tribute...
Apr 17, 2013 | More Videos
Here’s a Very Important documentary about my adventures in zumba, including interviews with some Very Influential Creative women in Springfield.
Apr 13, 2013 | Uncategorized
if there’s something going on with your beloved dog, or cat or whatever kind of cherished pet you might have, or a loved person, for that matter…don’t start looking stuff up online about it. i started doing that just a little yesterday afternoon and...
Apr 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
she has a big mass on the right central lobe of her liver. also on her left adrenal gland. the vet sent the biopsy-whatever-thing to the U of I, and we’ll know the results in a week. everything else is good. it’s going to be a very long week. ok then,...
Apr 12, 2013 | More Videos
This is my homage to the delightful black and white silent comedy, “The Artist,” that won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2012. It’s the story of Les Paul, the cat, and his endless struggle to break free from the prison of our back...
Apr 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
whew. the fantastic news: dad go released from the hospital on tuesday. very, very good news. there was all kinds of last-minute stuff, and it took way longer for the releasing that they said it would,but they finally set him free later in the afternoon. he’s...
Apr 9, 2013 | Uncategorized
i woke up to the sound of a crash – nothing huge, nothing broke, not like the bowl i somehow managed to break last night, from smacking into a plate on the floor next to the bowl of water. but even though the crash wasn’t so bad-sounding, i figured it must...
Apr 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
not so good. not horrible. not great. stressful. ups and downs. dad might get out of the hospital tomorrow. today, not such a great day for him. not so great. when i got home from the hospital i opened my computer because i haven’t read much of any news for...
Apr 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
yesterday morning they took out the tube. the doctor was hesitant about it since dad had always fought against the weaning trials, but both respratory therapists thought he could handle it. and he did! i finally left yesterday around noon, and when i got back...
Apr 3, 2013 | Uncategorized
10:49 p.m.and all is well, relatively. last night when amy spent the night, she didn’t sleep much, which is what you’d expect in a hospital. but she said sometimes that the staff sitting right outside dad’s door at the nurse’s station were...
Apr 3, 2013 | Uncategorized
last night amy stayed the night with dad, and tonight i will. so if i might write anything at all here tomorrow, please don’t pay any attention to me because i’m never in my right mind when sleep-deprived. this morning, though, amy seemed really good....
Apr 2, 2013 | Uncategorized
things didn’t go so well yesterday. i got to the hospital at about nine and they had tried to wean him off the tube, but it didn’t work. so yesterday he was supposed to rest. rest with two big tubes down his throat, hooked up to so many different IVs and...
Apr 1, 2013 | Uncategorized
well, endotracheal intubation, to be ecise. i just looked up intubation online and i’m glad i didn’t look it up before, not that i’ve really had time. mom and i drove dad to the ER on saturday afternoon. he and mom had been at toyota and mom called...
Mar 25, 2013 | Uncategorized
they said on the tv that we had 17 inches, in some place 18 – but i know we don’t have 17 inches of snow. we do have a whole lot, though. kevin went out before i got up this morning, plowing the driveway. but wait a minute here, let me show you this,...
Mar 24, 2013 | Uncategorized
i woke up and the HUGE snow hadn’t happened. a dusting of snow, that’s all. but then, at about 10 a.m., it started. it snowed. and snowed. and it just keeps on snowing. yesterday, kevin said that when it started snowing today we’d put on packs...
Mar 22, 2013 | Uncategorized
and so my day goes. the cold pack does help with the face swelling, and i’m amazed at how much i’m able to get done in little 20-minute bursts of activity. the pain isn’t so bad, either, so all in all, not the worst day. it’s all way better...
Mar 21, 2013 | Uncategorized
i only have five minutes before i have to have the ice pack on my face for 20 minutes, then off for 20 minutes, til bedtime. then the same, ALL DAY TOMORROW. when the periodontist looked at my teeth to see which one was the worst and needed to be done today, he said...
