I can’t say that I’ll miss 2008. It’s been a devastating year with little joy to show for it save that of the treasured last moments with Craig and Mom, getting to know Craig’s friends and Emily, and reunions with extended family in between. But, before we could kick 2008 to the curb and put [...]
Diane is somewhere between Salina, Kansas and Stillwater. I flew in yesterday to join Jill and Dad. It’s midnight–Christmas Eve; Jill and I are now 29. This is the first birthday for any one of us to experience without Mom or Craig….and we miss them beyond description.
…more to come…
~E
(Written Tuesday, December 16, 2008)
Lately, I’ve been tracking my life according to a sequence of songs, and like in life, some are more relatable than others. Just last night, I was sitting at a bar in Moab, Utah thinking of Craig when I heard the song “No I can’t get you out of my head…Now [...]
I saw Craig today. He was wearing a grey shirt and black work out pants, and moved between workout equipment with the casual familiarity of a ‘frequent flyer’. With head cocked slightly sideways, he looked down at the weights, picked them up and sat down to begin bicep curls. …only he didn’t
It was just [...]
(written last night)
It’s 3am and I should be sleeping. For the last two weekends, I’ve spent the morning hours of Saturday night/Sunday morning wide eyed and bushy tailed, “staring directly at the sun”. As incongruous as it seems, there is a certain comfort and sense of necessity to feeling the reality and sincerity of our [...]
Newsweek published an article a few weeks ago on the difficulties we face with regards to “curing” cancer. Importantly, it also touched on the lack of progress we’ve made in treating cancer. The article described a situation where a patient with lung cancer underwent a successful surgery, followed by observation, only for the [...]
Kindly or cruelly, time has wedged itself between one event and the next, between caring for Mom as she died and sitting with Craig as he took his last breath. Still more time has passed since returning to Silver Spring in October, and subsequently, resuming the life I abruptly left back in June, when I [...]
I see your corky wine and raise you a “patient” safety adverse event. Yes, as if life wasn’t “exciting” enough, it would appear that I have given Samcat three times the written prescription dose for a new anemia drug. It all began on Monday when I picked up the boys from their stay at the [...]
Tonight’s been one of those, “well, it seemed like a good idea at the time” kind of nights. I was scheduled to travel back to Thailand on November 29, but have since been grounded in Stillwater due to political unrest in Bangkok. The People’s Alliance for Democracy blockaded both the international and domestic airports, preventing all [...]
A lot has happened since late September, including two trips to Denver, two trips to Stillwater, and one trip to DC. The cats hate us, but that’s to be expected. I’ve been meaning to write in detail about the last few months, but couldn’t find the words. So here’s a hodgepodge of miscellaneous events that [...]