Part 2: THE CHRISTMAS THAT ALMOST WASN’T

  After a less than perfect Christmas which passed through New Year’s and into mid January, I was finally starting to get over the flu.  There was only a couple of days left before Lennie was leaving and we filled our time with plans to return to Mexico for what...

THE CHRISTMAS THAT ALMOST WASN’T

Today marks 3 weeks that I have had the flu – the worst flu that I have ever known.  It has just started to leave my body, but the lungs are still sore and weak.  I ran myself down with months of stress that culminated with trying to make the perfect Christmas...

LENNIE – HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS

If the saying, “Home is where the heart is” is true then Lennie is coming ‘home’ tomorrow.  It has been 5 weeks since I left him in Hawai’i and in less than 16 hours I will be picking him up at Toronto Airport.  How will he look?  After 5...

LENNIE’S PROGRESS REPORT

As I watched Lennie walk out of the airport I felt a pain in my heart as the tears welled in my eyes.  I was finally leaving to go back to Canada and I was going without him.  Last week Lennie got more blood tests.  His iron count is still way too low and his CEA...