Okay, friends and family! I am hearing from you that you are wondering how I am. I mostly disappeared after the insertion of a pain pump for my new diagnosis of terminal pancreatic cancer. On June 19, I had a Medtronic pain pump inserted into a "pocket" incision made into my right upper abdomen. The …
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Now that I have so much to say, I have so little time. It's been a race across days to get everything and everyone scheduled. Just minutes after I fired my daughter from helping me with the scheduling, I hired her back. I thought for sure I could take it over and free her up …
First, thanks for your generous responses to my new focus on dying on my blog. I wish I could write everyday. But as every adventure should be, this one is full of surprises. What may have seemed like fun one day is a total dud the next. I hope to address a topic tonight that …
I have so much to say today and so little time. Starting yesterday, I've had over twenty phone calls. The only thing good about that was my daughter had left her phone in her car and somehow my phone made its way into her hand, and she operates quickly, so each time it rang, she …
I've been home from the hospital since last Thursday, but I'm been awake only a fraction of that time Both the palliative care nurses and nurse friends impressed on me the importance of pain management, so being the good little do-be that I am I've taken my med every four hours, followed immediately by an …
In 2005, my only brother died at age 74 of pancreatic cancer. At the time, my husband and I were living in Chicago, and I had been impressed by Joseph Cardinal Bernadin's memoir of his final months of living with the disease. His book, The Gift of Peace, had been published in 1997, and I …
I apologize for being negligent in responding to all of you. For weeks now, no months, you have urgently showed up in my Friend box asking me to be your Friend. Now, whatever photos you may have seen of me, might make me look like I need Friends, and perhaps that’s why you landed on …
I have a new diagnosis. Not exactly a pleasant one. I found out after I had a CT scan of the abdomen three weeks ago. I’d just flown home after six weeks in AZ, and when my daughter picked me up at the airport, I asked her to take me directly from the airport to …
Continue reading Hatpins, Waist Squeezers, and Unplanned Naps
Read this inspiring article on aging from Persimmon Tree. As an octogenarian myself, it is my story or close to it. I think if you are my age, you will see yourself in the essay and comments. The article affirms that we are not alone as we sometimes skip, and sometimes fizzle, through the changes …
Need I say more in these topsy turvy times! https://loisroelofs.com/2021/10/25/ode-to-the-hoitenga-sisters/?page_id=12691
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