Hair Loss

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...

After the First Treatment

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...

Starting Treatment

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...

More Complications and Pathology

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...

The Hospital Stay – Mike’s

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...

Back To Lawrence

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...