Thanks for your positive comments and thoughts regarding Blaine’s procedure yesterday.  It was minor … very minor … so minor I considered taking him out for breakfast (and by taking him out, I mean taking MYSELF out for breakfast) since we had to be there so stinking early in the morning and I didn’t get [...]

Up at 5am to take Blaine to the Surgery Center …. he’s been having unexplained bleeding from his ear and nose for a few months, so his ENT is going to scope out his sinuses and put a tube in his ear.  For like the third or fourth time, I can’t even remember …… I [...]

Blaine actually made it to a half day of work yesterday before bagging it and coming home …. and when he got home, he “relaxed” around the house instead of sinking into the recliner in a Phenergan-induced coma, which is pretty much where he spent all of Monday and Tuesday, covered with a Dora the Explorer [...]

Extreme nausea and vomiting. He’s never had that with radiation before ….. hmmmmmmmm. Today, he had his first round of radiation at 6:45 am.  Later that morning, he was driving, ironically, to his pain management doctor for a med refill when he said out of the clear blue, it felt like someone had shoved a [...]

I realize several of you have asked, and once again, poor Blaine and his cancer treatment have been pushed to the back burner in light of the other minor stuff (oh, like delivering a BABY) that has happened around here the past week or two.  But he is indeed starting his next round of radiation [...]

Radiologist:  “Well, treatment option #1 would give us a pretty straight shot at the tumor, and would work well, but it would also hit your optic nerve and you will have permanent blindness in both eyes in two to three months.” (pause) Blaine:  “And treatment option #2???” Radiologist:  “We would tweak it a little, the [...]

The PA in Blaine’s doctor’s office yesterday said from the looks of things, both Wednesday and Friday’s bleeding episodes are under control, healing, and he is in no danger of anything going seriously wrong.  He was sent home (well, again, you know Blaine, he went back to work because the entire free market world will [...]

So, despite the 72 yards of gauze packing up his right nostril, Blaine woke up during the night with blood down his face, neck, and onto his shirt and shorts.  (Why, yes, he sleeps fully clothed, siting up, in the living room.  Because don’t all normal people?)  When he told me about it this morning, I [...]

The only two funerals I’ve ever been to that truly bothered me were two of our cancer friends (children) in Georgia.  And probably because of Kendrie, it was so incredibly easy for me to identify with the parents of those children, I found both funerals, while beautiful memorials, very sad and upsetting. Today’s was sad [...]

“Sorry to say, it is indeed a tumor” were the words Blaine’s surgeon said to me this afternoon, after the procedure,  while I was waiting for Blaine to be wheeled down to recovery.  And I thought to myself, “Um, yes, I know that.  Isn’t that why we were here? Because he has another tumor?” Anyway, I’m [...]