by Kathryn | Jul 11, 2011 | Lennie & Kathryn, Thoughts
“When somebody love you, it’s no good unless she loves you….. all the way…..” It is late at night as I sit here at the desk while you sleep. I am surrounded by photos of us. Happy photos that I look at now, knowing that in every one you...
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 | Jun 17, 2011 | Uncategorized
It’s strange how life can be going so well and then in the blink of an eye it can change. Sometimes the change is good like someone coming out of a coma; sometimes it can be unexpected like winning a lottery; and sometimes when all seems to be going well, it...
by Kathryn | May 2, 2011 | Uncategorized
The 3 weeks of Hell that I last wrote about have stretched into 5 as Lennie was now in less pain, but too weak to do much of anything in the way of caring for himself. He has slept a lot which in itself is restorative. Lennie and I arrived back in Mexico on Wednesday...
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 14, 2011 | Thoughts
Georg Strobele was both my doctor and my friend. It was a year ago today that he passed on. We were the same age he and I. He played squash, he ate healthy. If ever you could say that someone really knew how to live life, you could say that about Georg. I like to...
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...
