Loose Strife

Amid our first big snow storm of the season, the kids and I drove down the mountain and back this afternoon to pick up Laura from the hospital. Laura’s looking and feeling better. Her migraines have moderated both in frequency and severity. (She says the one that made her lose her cookies this morning was […]

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A quick update for Wednesday. Laura will stay at least another night — which is actually good news. The GI endoscopy found nothing remarkable, as expected. But the coordinating doc doesn’t want to let her go, because the headaches aren’t under control, yet. They’re modifying some meds and also taking her off her current narcotic […]

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Laura spent a second day in the hospital and it was slow, but good. Several friends stopped by. Thanks for that. And thank you so much to the friends who have been watching Naomi and Lily for the past 48 hours! The hospital was so busy that Laura waited much of today for an endoscopy […]

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Not much to report. Laura is at Cooley-Dickinson hospital in Northampton. She’s just fine right now. I’ve been keeping a record of the time, duration, and intensity of her headaches. Every hour or two, for 5 to 10 minutes, pain between 6 and 10. (Everywhere in the hospital is displayed a row of faces — […]

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Laura’s been having debilitating, painful headaches that probably aren’t migraines. The most intense ones end in her vomiting. Last night during such a severe bout she became dizzy and fell. I took her to the ER and we’re in the hospital now. Not sure what will come of it. At first they were just going […]

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I haven’t posted in quite a while, so I have a lot of catching up to do. Laura’s family all have now long gone back to Virginia, including Natalie and Joe who have been a phenomenal comfort and support around the house for some time. Thank you especially to them! Being a stay-at-home dad is, […]

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We’ve had a full house lately and I haven’t taken the time to post any news. Happy Birthday to my sister, Karen! Happy anniversary to my parents! And Happy Thanksgiving everyone! All of Laura’s brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews, and her parents all came to Massachusetts for Thanksgiving this year. We had 18 at the table […]

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Small town police logs are always a source of a good laugh. And the New England dry humor makes this terse report into the first section I read. Ashfield’s log will predictably have a least one memorable report (my mother-in-laws favorite was something along the lines of “Woman reported motionless lying on lawn. Officer sent. […]

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Sorry I haven’t posted any news on Laura for over a week, but I didn’t really have any news, and didn’t want to merely post that Laura was still extremely fatigued, vomiting daily, and feeling down. But I have good news today that the chemotherapy is working — that the cancer is receding. Laura had […]

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Time marches on. I’ve started November’s photo album.

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