Truthfully, although I should have guessed it, I didn't realize that it was Arbor Day until I showed up for the tree ceremony at a park in Glendale. Every year on Arbor Day, the "Beautiful Glendale" society holds a ceremony and tree dedication. The Glendale Police Department bought a tree in my mom's memory and I went with my aunt to accept the ( Read more... )

At the moment, I am sore...very sore. I have had my third personal training session at the gym and my entire body aches. I currently hurt the most in my right calve. Last week, I hurt the most in my chest. It felt like I was in a car accident. The pain last for four days and finally went away. The cool thing is, I can already see muscle definition ( Read more... )

Valentine's Day didn't end up being depressing at all. It was actually the perfect day to return to work. On my desk, I found a yellow daisy plant with a huge bow around it. It was a welcome back present from my boss and the office. It took me two hours to sort through emails, about a third of which were sympathy/welcome back related. I also had ( Read more... )

It's been a really long week and a half ( Read more... )

 Mom died this morning, close to seven. It was peaceful. She just started breathing really slowly and eventually stopped. My immediate reaction was relief. I am so happy to know that she is no longer sick and suffering. I am back home now.

I am completely overwhelmed. This is the second night in the hospital and I am going on less than three hours of sleep from last night. We have stopped all treatments and now it's just waiting for my mom to stop breathing. We are trying to keep her comfortable, but it is impossible to tell if she is in pain. The thought that she could be in pain is ( Read more... )

 I thought that right now was as good of a time as any to do an update. I am currently at the hospital, in my mom's room. She went into the hospital eight days ago and has been declining pretty much every day. On Thursday, they amputated her right middle toe. This sounds more awful that it really is. I have seen it. It was completely black before ( Read more... )

She has been home from the hospital for two days, but we have come close to going back. She can't seem to keep food down. Tomorrow she has an appointment for chemo, so hopefully her oncologist will be able to help her with the food issue. If she can't eat, she won't be able to get better. My aunt stayed until Monday morning. She took my mom to ( Read more... )

Mom is home from the hospital and doing fine. Today was not an easy one though. I was at the hospital from ten-thirty until six and the entire time mom was moody and belligerent. She wanted to go home, but the surgeon had to check her foot before she could be released. The surgeon was at the hospital, but he was in surgery all day. Mom just couldn' ( Read more... )

Yesterday, mom had surgery to remove the blood clot. They got a majority of the clot and the rest they are trying to dissolve with medicine. She was an emergency add in procedure, which means we had to wait at the hospital until they could squeeze in her procedure. My aunt and I stayed at the hospital for twelve hours. We left briefly to get lunch ( Read more... )