by Kathryn | Jul 3, 2011 | Health, Lennie & Kathryn, Uncategorized
We have just arrived back in Hamilton after spending a week in Canandaigua with Lennie’s sister and father. His 2 daughters and the new baby at 3 months old flew up from Florida to stay with us. It was a little family reunion that I thought might do Lennie the...
by Kathryn | Apr 12, 2011 | Health, Lennie & Kathryn
I once read somewhere that a dog’s sense of smell can be up to 10,000 times as strong as that of a human. And although our own sense of smell may have been diminished over eons of evolution it is still strong enough to evoke memories with a whiff of something...
by Kathryn | Mar 13, 2011 | Health, In the News, Lennie & Kathryn
We had just climbed into bed when the first siren sounded. It was the unmistakable whine ofan air-raid siren. The same siren that would have sounded during the attack of Pearl Harbor; signaling the arrival of enemy aircraft from Japan. This was not an air raid. We...
by Kathryn | Feb 25, 2011 | Health, Lennie & Kathryn
As I packed our suitcases in our Tijuana hotel room I couldn’t help remembering the feeling of déjà vu, when I had stood here doing the exact thing. It was almost 4 months ago that we had left the Stella Maris Clinic for the first time. We were so full of hope...
by Kathryn | Feb 11, 2011 | Health, Lennie & Kathryn
It’s late at night and Lennie is sound asleep after another treatment in the Hyperthermia Chamber earlier today. Everything seemed normal until about 11:30 at night when he suddenly felt dizzy – room spinning dizzy. He vomited and then had a bout of...
by Kathryn | Feb 3, 2011 | Health, Lennie & Kathryn
“They are waiting for us; I told them we would be a little late.”, said Dr Alvarez as he drove us to the MRI centre, speeding through the Mexican streets. Once there I stayed in the room with Lennie as the machine buzzed, clunked and hammered, creating...
