by Susan | Apr 11, 2018 | EGC, Medical
My mother has always said that I am a poor decision-maker. One time when I was little I wanted two stuffed animals. My parents told me I could only have one, but I couldn’t decide so I didn’t get either. I’m not sure if this was an inability to decide or a...
by Susan | Apr 4, 2018 | Medical
Those of you that have known me for a while know that most of my life I’ve had long brown hair. Well mostly brown the last few years I’ve had to help it stay brown. I’ve considered it one of my best features and I loved having the ability to wear it up or down...
by Susan | Mar 28, 2018 | Medical
The treatment left me woozy for a while. This is how I feel when I ride drivers who are heavy on the accelerator and brake in the city. Why I always drive. Mike had a mission and even though Hays isn’t city driving he made it worse. We got home without any problems...
by Susan | Mar 21, 2018 | EGC, Medical
I had seen the oncologist in Hays twice. Once before the second surgery and once almost three weeks after it when I still had the drain. The drain was taken out on February 8 and my first chemo treatment was set for February 14. It seems like all the major events have...
by Susan | Mar 14, 2018 | Horses, Medical
Follow-up for this surgery was two weeks after so I had about a week at home after Mike’s hospital stay. I was sure that the doctor would not be removing the drain since they had told me that I had to be down to less than 30 mls before it could come out. Again, I saw...
by Susan | Mar 7, 2018 | Caregiving, Medical
The nurses couldn’t believe that I’d had surgery only the day before when he was admitted. Admittedly I didn’t ever have much pain. Or maybe I just don’t feel it. Normally I like to be at the hospital when the doctors make rounds, but I knew this surgeon usually did...
by Susan | Feb 28, 2018 | Caregiving, Medical
The surgeon contacted the social worker to see what they could do to get us back to Lawrence safely. Our son went to work at 4:00 pm and we didn’t know what time we’d be done at the main hospital. Mike drove us from the surgical hospital to the main hospital where he...
by Susan | Feb 21, 2018 | Medical
We were on our way to Kansas City. I was to have surgery on Thursday, January 11 and Mike was to have an EGD with dilation on Friday, January 12 then we would drive home. We got to Lawrence without any problems and had dinner with Roderick and his girlfriend....
by Susan | Feb 14, 2018 | Caregiving, Medical
For the last four holiday seasons, I’ve felt grateful for my family because of Mike’s health. This season was a little different because of mine. Don’t worry I’ll get through this, it may not be as easy as we thought but I’ll survive. I was very worried about Mike...
by Susan | Feb 7, 2018 | Caregiving, Medical
The lumpectomy and sentinel biopsy was a breeze. I hardly had any pain. I did sleep a lot when we got home. And I got to John’s band concert on the next Tuesday, sans camera, but I was there. I would have had to go to great lengths to get his picture anyway. He was...
