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Comfort Care
Ryan is now undergoing something called “Comfort Care.” This means that measures are being taken only to make him comfortable rather than prolonging his life. He has never left the hospital since his...
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The Waiting Is the Hardest Part Now
Hospital Hallway. I took the pic with a new phone app Or is it? That is what one of Ry’s doctors said the other day, that waiting for his passing will be very difficult, and it is sometimes the...
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We’re Still Here, All Of Us
The View from my sleeper chair One of the nurses here on the 6th floor of the hospital thought it would be a good idea to give me a booklet on the dying process. I guess she thought it was about that...
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Self Care
I wrote this last Novermber/December but never published it: The only good thing about Ry being in the hospital is I can occasionally take a bit of time for myself without feeling that I am neglecting...
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Quick Tip
For G-tube bolus feedings: use oil to coat the inside of the bolus syringe so the plunger will be less likely to get stuck. Both Ry and I had trouble using these syringes because of this problem....
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Smoothie-ing Over A Problem
A couple of friends of mine are currently either facing a seriously scary medical diagnosis, or facing the reality of cancer and its treatment. I hope and pray these ladies will be ok, but their...
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Getting Better
I know I am getting better with this whole loss, grief, and self-pity thing because I am cooking again. I started with salads, because of the last couple of heat waves. I have not had a salad as a...
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Sexually Transmitted Cancer?
Head Shot Mandala (Photo credit: kightp) Oh yeah, it’s for real and it’s been around for a while. As a “Friend” or a “Fan” of a number of Facebook pages devoted to Oral Cancer and Head and Neck Cancer...
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Screening Process
UCSF Medical Center (Photo credit: frankfarm) I got my free Oral Cancer/Head and Neck Cancer screening this morning! Last year I could not find a place where free Oral Cancer screenings were being done...
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Ever Vigilant
A male patient in his 30’s. Left inferior internal jugular node metastases with extranodal invasion, two years after brachytherapy of tongue cancer. PET-CT scanning, 64 minutes after fludeoxyglucose (...
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