Cancer Crisis an Epilogue: Thank You

2 Jun 2010

Last night I spent the evening writing out thank you cards to everyone who gave monetary gifts, flowers, cards, and gifts of time and services.  We knocked off at 9:30…

What’s going on with the Database?

28 May 201028 May 2010

You may or may not have noticed a new feature that ran this week.  The Destination Iowa article is going to be a regular summer feature (we haven't decided if…

Thoughts as I enter my 43rd year as a widower.

14 May 2010

It's 12:30 in the morning on the 14th.  I have been 43 years old for thirty minutes now.  In another fifty minutes I'll have been a widower/single parent for exactly…

Memories of Virgina

13 May 2010

I remember about twenty-five years ago, I walked into the student union at Central Bible College.  My dad was inside with his study group (I was a senior in High…

Cancer Crisis: Her Journey is Over… and ours has just begun.

12 May 2010

Good Morning World.  It is 11:00 am Wednesday May 12.  I wake up this morning as a single father.  I am simply overwhelmed by the support, love, and friendship... (how…

Cancer Crisis: 11:30 at the Conrad Hospice unit.

11 May 2010

Virginia left the UIHC at 12:00 noon on Tuesday.  It was exactly on week ago from that moment that I picked her up in Waterloo for a three-week check-up regarding…

Cancer Crisis: Counting Down the Hours.

11 May 2010

It is 11:20 in the morning Tuesday May 11.  I am sitting in the chair that I have basically occupied for the past 48 hours.  Yesterday Virginia's dietary intake went…

Cancer Crisis: What Cancer Cannot Do

11 May 201010 May 2010

What Cancer Cannot Do... This is not an update on Virginia per se.  It is something that I'm going to put down as a catharsis of sorts.  I'm not finding…

Cancer Crisis: Spending the night at the UIHC

5 May 2010

Tuesday May 4, Virginia and I both took off early from work to transport her to Iowa City.  We had the three-week follow-up after her first round of Xelota, a chemo…

Cancer Crisis: A New Hope

1 May 20101 May 2010

Yesterday, Virginia went to a see Naturopath.  She spent two hours with the doctor while he poked and prodded and asked her questions.  I'm getting this all second-hand as I was…