Caregiver logs
Round and Round We Go
November 4, 2010
A quick update from Ann-Marie & Tera regarding Melissa’s latest hospital stint. Yesterday Melissa was admitted to St. Joe’s after evaluation at the ER. For the past week, Melissa has been coughing up large amounts of blood that have a clot-like consistency. Additionally, she hasn’t had much of an appetite due to nausea and vomiting which can be triggered even by a sip of room temperature water. After notifying CTCA, they recommended that Melissa immediately go to the hospital for .. Read More
It’s 3am
October 15, 2010
Tomorrow it seems will be the day that I will finally go home. I was planning for today, but it didn’t quite work out so maybe tomorrow. I am in a little bit of pain, so I didn’t mind hanging out resting for a day. Surprisingly, I’ve been quite busy with appointments each day so it was nice to just relax. We’ll see though, I know this quadramet is supposed to cause bone pain after about .. Read More
Tina’s Caregiver Blog
September 8, 2010
September 2, 2010 (Thursday)
2pm I drove Melissa to the CTCA. She’s hasn’t been able to keep food down for about 5 days. This seemed a little odd because it has been a while since she has her last chemo treatment. Melissa is concerned that it has to do with the mets on her brain. She is also complaining about her right shoulder hurting.
After we arrived, they gave her a bag of liquid, dilaudid and zophran. .. Read More
There Goes My Hero
July 17, 2010
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A friend of mine wrote an article about me awhile back and I thought I would re-share it with you. I know I have alot of new visitors of the site, and thought this would be interesting to see a contributor’s thought’s. She has won awards for some of her work and has a talent for witty writing that brings us back to simple things that can rock us to the core. I posted the link to .. Read More
“That’s news to me!” or Melissa’s new favorite phrase
July 7, 2010
This is an update from Ann-Marie on Melissa’s health care plan as of this week. Yesterday (7/6), Melissa began the Trilogy whole brain radiation treatment. She is scheduled thru 7/20 for daily (Mon-Fri) treatments at 1:30pm. Once Melissa is discharged, she will need rides to/from CTCA daily.
For the next couple of days, Melissa will be in-patient while they monitor how her brain is tolerating the radiation. The plan is no IV pain meds for the next 48 .. Read More
Deborah Meyers Caregiver Notes
October 17, 2009
Following are notes from caregiver Deborah Meyers on her stay with me
Care Giver notes for Monday October 12 thru Thursday October 15 Deborah Myers
I arrived at the airport this morning as Lisa (sister) was dropped off. Melissa is so happy to be home right now and it shows she looks so pretty and it is great to see her driving. It has been about 2 months since I saw Mel and at that time she was still in .. Read More
Christine’s Caregiver Notes
October 7, 2009
Following are notes from Christine’s Visit
Thursday Oct. 1, 2009 Melissa picked me up from the airport at 1:30 and we headed back home to her house. Melissa was excited to be out of Cancer Treatment Center, but c/o increasing back pain. She made a list of errands that needed to be done and we were off. Around 3:30PM she stated that back pain was not subsiding and c/o abdominal pain as well. We returned home for her to rest, she .. Read More
Tammy’s Caregiver notes
October 3, 2009
Tuesday, Sept. 22nd After 10 exhausting hours of driving trying to find CTCA, I finally arrived to an already awake Missy who’s first words out of her mouth were, “You have raccoon eyes”! Anybody who knows Missy, would not be shocked to hear that! Hahaha I have not seen Missy since she has been diagnosed, the last time I saw her was right before she got diagnosed when she came down to Seattle in Jan. 2008 for a .. Read More
Kathy's Caregiver Notes
July 30, 2009
Following are caregiver notes from Kathy and Jan’s stay July 26-30.
Jan and I drove from Salt Lake to St George on Saturday to visit Jan’s brother and stay the night. We arrived in Phoenix Sunday night at about 9:00 pm. Melissa was arriving at the CTCA directly from her trip to Laguna Beach. I talked to her on the phone and said we would see her in the morning. She had her girl friends take her .. Read More
NewPort Beach
Back from Newport Beach! What a beautiful place that is!
Wes let us borrow his new Tahoe, which was huge life saver! I can’t imagine all three of us smashing into my little audi with our baggage comfortably. I rode in the back most of the time which worked out perfect so that i could lay down in case i got car sick, which is pretty much how I felt the whole trip. We got into .. Read More