Month: March 2012

  • It’s Gone Fast

    Chemo is two pills, taken at home every day. Radiation is a machine, five days a week at the hospital. I have written this information down (along with her contact information, her doctors, her medications) in a little notebook for my mother to keep in her purse for when she forgets. She looks through it…

  • Let Us Know If There’s Anything We Can Do

    You are doing so great. You are doing amazing. She is lucky to have daughters like you girls. I don’t pay attention when someone says something like this, I don’t even hear it. I check my phone and go on to the next thing that needs doing. The side effects will be. You should be…

  • February 2012 Books

    February 3 You Lost Me There Eh. This got bogged down, I thought—Alzheimer’s researcher guy loses his wife in a car accident and writes a lot of grants in the lab and has sex with a student half his age and he doesn’t really love her and his best friend’s daughter comes to stay with…