by Kathryn | Oct 11, 2011 | Health, Lennie & Kathryn
I have known people that have been told that they have cancer and their immediate reaction is that they have to live because their children need them. In all honesty the only reason that you have to live is for yourself. I would love to think that Lennie could keep...
by Kathryn | Sep 26, 2011 | Health, Lennie & Kathryn
It’s early morning as I look out the window of our hospital room. I can see the sun sparkling on the ocean across the street. There are two dolphins jumping out of the water and the street is quiet. Soon the streets will start to fill with people as thousands...
by Kathryn | Sep 21, 2011 | Uncategorized
At 4 a.m. I awoke to the sounds of screaming. There was a doctor and a nurse in our room packing yards of gauze into Lennie’s rectum, trying to stop the bleeding. The screams were Lennie’s screams as he bit into his pillow, not being able to stand the...
by Kathryn | Sep 14, 2011 | Health, Lennie & Kathryn
The original surgery had been scheduled for last Thursday – the same day that the lights went out in Tijuana, and most of California, stretching to Las Vegas and leaving over 5 million people without electricity. That afternoon we were very grateful that once...
by Kathryn | Sep 12, 2011 | Health, Lennie & Kathryn
It is almost 11 P.M. on Sunday night here in Tijuana as I start to write this. In about 12 hours from now Lennie will be going into surgery. He will be coming out with a colostomy bag. He will be coming out with hopefully a lot less pain in his rectum as the...
by Kathryn | Sep 11, 2011 | Health, Lennie & Kathryn
The past two weeks has seen some of the worst days of my life. We were not too happy at Bio Care when they said that Lennie needed surgery. I did not have a good rapport with the doctor that was assigned to Lennie as he seemed to ‘Americanized’ with...
by Kathryn | Aug 26, 2011 | Health, Lennie & Kathryn
Today is Lennie’s birthday. It was exactly one year ago today that Lennie started bleeding from his rectum and left for Mexico. At that time his rectal tumor was blocking the passage by 85% and had metastasized to his lungs, seminal vesicles, lymph nodes and a...
by Kathryn | Aug 22, 2011 | Health, Lennie & Kathryn
It is Sunday evening here in Tijuana as I sit here in my little cottage trying to keep everything straight in my head. Lennie’s CAT scan revealed that the cancer has once again metastasized, this time to his liver and some lymph nodes on either side of his one...
by Kathryn | Aug 19, 2011 | Lennie & Kathryn
It is 2 A.M. on Tuesday morning and someone is shaking me, telling me to wake up. It’s the bag lady sitting next to me in Los Angeles’ Union Station. I’ve been here since 10 P.M. and I must have dozed off, waiting for my bus that is supposed to...
by Kathryn | Jul 28, 2011 | Health, Lennie & Kathryn
My mom use to say that “No news was good news”. That may have been true decades ago when it was so much of an effort to hand-write, stamp, address and mail out a letter just to say that you were doing fine. But in these days of blogs and tweets it...
