Learning to Kill My Own Snakes

” Learning to kill my own snakes” was a phrase I read somewhere many years ago  referring to women learning to take care of themselves rather than relying on their husbands or other male relatives to do the job for them..  Of course, I would never kill a snake.  Better to let it go on about its [...]

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Rehab to Gain Strenght After Brain Surgery

      Bob has been through the wringer already this morning.  It is just 9:30 am and he has had an x-ray, blood test, physical therapy, and still to have a radiation treatment to take and a bath to be given.  The nurse brought medicines and that is always a battle. He still says it hurts to [...]

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Hoping For a Miracle

    It looks like we will spend another holiday hospitalized.  Tuesday will make a week at Iredell Memorial Hospital.  Today Bob got the first radiation treatment here.  It only took a few minutes.  It probably took longer to be taken down stairs to the radiation  department. There are Christmas decorations all around the hospital. If we [...]

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Getting Ready for Radiation Treatment

     It seems like we are never going to get started with the radiation treatments  after the removal of the glioblastoma tumor in  Bob’s right temporal lobe. The surgery was on the 19th of November. With the heart attack, the long stay at Baptist Hospital, and Bob’s decision to move his treatment closer to home. The surgery was [...]

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Home Again / After Brain Tumor

We have been allowed to come home after going to Davis Regional Hospital so Bob could be given IV  fluid.  We went to the ER Tuesday and he was admitted to get more fluids and to tweak his meds.  A gentleman from palliative care and Hospice came by to speak with me about some of the decisions [...]

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Hospitalized at Davis Regional After Released from Baptist Hospitalized

We I guess we came home  too soon from Baptist Hospital but Bob was having a fit to come home and the medicare people was wanting to know why he was still being hospitalized.So, that being said, we willing gathered up everything and came home.  Bob was delighted to return home and to see Lilly.  [...]

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Fifteen Days at Baptist Hospital

We are still at Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem.  Bob was scheduled for brain surgery on the 12 of November but shortly after going into the OR The surgeon, Dr.Couture, came back  out to tell me that the surgery was canceled.  His EKG was different from the one he had the day before in pre admissions.  Bob was sent to [...]

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Still Recovering From Brain Surgery and Heart Attack

     Today was a little better for Bob.  He had a feeding tube placed into his stomach yesterday.  He was very agitated and the CCU staff was afraid he would he would pull it out of his nose.  His hands were restrained all night and most of the day.  He would constantly beg me to turn [...]

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Battleing Cancer, Heart Attack, Deafness, and Confusion.

 We are still in the cardiac ICU atBaptist Hospital in Winston Salem, NC. Today a cancer doctor just came by to talk to me.  He ask if I had talked with anyone in the cancer treatment department. I told him what  Dr.Lesser and Dr. Chang who talked to me earlier this week had to say.  Their plan is to [...]

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Undetectable Internal Bleeding

     Bob had an echocardiogram day before yesterday It showed a weakened heart  but most of the function was preserved.    Now he  is having blood transfusions     Yesterday his hemoglobin drop to 8 which is low enough to need blood . Yesterday he was taken for CT scan and it was determined that there was no blood loss in the [...]

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