A Caregiver's Inspirational Journey Through Cancer
Posted in Abecma Car T, Caregiver Thoughts, Kids, Misc, Multiple Myeloma, Our Life on Oct 20th, 2021
“Winners never quit and quitters never win.” –Vince Lombardi Dave continues to improve daily with his femur fracture. His PT person is pushing him within reason and chats about the why and what of it. She’s very encouraging. Today she said when he said he wasn’t doing 30 of each exercise, “If you were doing […]
Posted in Abecma Car T, Caregiver Thoughts, Kids, Our Life on Oct 13th, 2021
“…every gift is exactly that, a gift.” – Maya Angelou What a lovely weekend and then extended two days with our daughter and her new husband here in Little Rock! Just what the caregiver ordered for Dave (and me!). I was so heartened when I called her and just casually said, “Hey! Any chance you […]
Posted in Abecma Car T, Caregiver Thoughts, Kids, Misc, Multiple Myeloma on Oct 11th, 2021
“Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart There will probably be a lot of “MishMash Musings” in the coming weeks leading up to Dave beginning his Abecma Car T Therapy, currently scheduled for Halloween. Perfect if […]
Posted in Abecma Car T, Caregiver Thoughts, Kids, Multiple Myeloma, Our Life on Oct 7th, 2021
“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln Another stellar day here in Little Rock yesterday. We managed to get the car registered, and so now we are 100% legal! One of my fellow apartment dwellers gave me the “better” Motor […]
Oh, the adventures we’ve enjoyed since the years I’ve blogged about our journey in Myelomaville. Some wonderful and some not so much. Typical to life in general, to be honest. Though with Myeloma, we can get immersed in everything through that lens, rightly or wrongly. No judgment here! And in these difficult times of Covid […]
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson. It has felt soooooo good to be back on my blog. Sometimes topics just flood my mind endlessly and then other times I’m all dried up! Being away from it with little to no connectivity made it pretty […]
Posted in Caregiver Thoughts, Kids, Misc, Our Life on Apr 23rd, 2012
“There is no such thing in anyone’s life as an unimportant day.” – Alexander Woollcott, American Author Wowsa! What a trip! I was gone for about 11 days traveling back east to visit with our daughter Montana. Dave flew to Baltimore after his business meetings in Rochester and we had a fast and furious weekend […]
Posted in Caregiver Thoughts, Kids, Our Life on Apr 5th, 2012
“Families are like fudge – mostly sweet with a few nuts.” ~Author Unknown I haven’t posted in a while!!! Been swamped with life! A good thing in Myelomaville. So know when I’m absent for a while things are probably going gang busters! We have had a lot going on of late. Dave finally got over […]
Posted in Caregiver Thoughts, Kids, Our Life on Feb 6th, 2012
“We’re here! Superrrrr Bowlllllllll!” – Text Dave has been blessed this year with a couple of companies that have gifted him with football tickets. We got two sets for the championship games with the San Francisco 49ers and then he couldn’t believe it when another company gave him two super bowl tickets! As luck would […]
Posted in Caregiver Thoughts, Kids, Our Life on Sep 8th, 2011
“The only fault I have ever found with dogs is that they don’t live as long as we do.” Jackie, My Dog Trainer First, Kip is still with us… I have had a hard week. Our beloved Kip is failing dramatically and I’m grieving terribly. Scrambling to see what is wrong and if it can […]
“But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.” – Ronald Reagan I don’t know if this happens to all of you, but it happens to me – every fall. When I’m out and about seeing all the school supplies overstocked […]
“Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.” – Anthony Brandt What a lovely family day we had on our first ever trip to Napa. It was a late start, but we enjoyed what little time we had there. We had lunch at Mustard’s Grill. Which grows almost all it’s […]
A rose can say “I love you”, orchids can enthrall, but a weed bouquet in a chubby fist, yes, that says it all. ~Author Unknown It’s the 4th of July holiday weekend here in the States. Our Independence Day celebration around the country. Fireworks, American Flags, barbecues, family gatherings, children in awe and animals hiding […]
“The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another’s desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that […]
Posted in Caregiver Thoughts, Kids, Our Life on May 15th, 2011
“Mommy – I can’t wait until I grow up and have blond hair and blue eyes like you.” – Tani, Age 4 Montana and I were getting ready together for our day in my bathroom. I was putting on my makeup and she was preparing for me to do pigtails or a braid, whichever trend […]
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”- Thomas Merton Sorry I haven’t been posting lately! It has been a wonderfully busy time for me! I have been taking a weaving class from Robyn Lynde of Meridian Jacobs farm in Dixon, CA. The class, my friend Kathi and I took, […]
“To be in your children’s memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today” – Anonymous What a wonderful trip I had in Maryland visiting our daughter Montana. She was an athlete for four years at Maryland and was giving a little speech at the year end swim and dive banquet. It coincided with […]
“A daughter is a little girl who grows up to be a friend.” – Author Unknown I stayed home while Dave flew for a fast and furious, in Montana’s words, “fleeting” weekend to University of Maryland, home of the Terrapins, better known as the TERPS, to attend her Senior Day recognition ceremony for her final […]
Posted in Caregiver Thoughts, Kids, Our Life on Jan 24th, 2011
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life — It goes on. —Robert Frost” This photo was taken in May 2007, a year before Dave’s MM diagnosis on the lovely day of our youngest’s HS Graduation. This May she will graduate from College! Good news. Dave has had a sudden burst […]
