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grieving
I started grieving the loss of my mom long before she made the decision to go on hospice. I distinctly remember having multiple conversations with my staff + fellow co-workers about her ultimate passing. She had surgery on August 20, 2019, where there were two outcomes. On the CT scan, there were two areas of […]
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final goodbye
On December 22, 2019, early in the morning, my mom took her last breath, surrounded by my dad + my Aunt Carolyn. My mom waited for everyone to be out of her house – the dogs, the boys, my brothers, before she left this earth. She wanted peace. Throughout my mom’s journey, my phone was […]
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hospice – learning to say goodbye
Here are a few thoughts during the last month of my mom’s life on earth. 11/19/2019Mom has been in the hospital for a few days. It started out as a UTI and then she developed VRE (Vancomycin Resistant Enterococcus), a blood infection. She’s received several doses of Zyvox which has been working. Today, at lunch […]
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outpace cancer walk
Anthony, Emery, + I did the 1 mile walk around the OU Health Sciences Center for Outpace Cancer in honor of my mom’s fight with Ovarian Cancer. Emery + I wore our teal in awareness of ovarian cancer. At the bottom of this post is an info-graphic with symptoms (early & advanced). Please make sure […]
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brave shave
We went to Shawnee to be apart of the shaving of my mom’s head, just days before her 64th birthday. It didn’t take long for the chemo to cause her hair to fall out. She is so incredibly brave, allowing her entire family to cut parts of her hair.
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ovarian cancer
On April 24th, my mom received the diagnosis of ovarian cancer by her OB/GYN. The next day the family met up at OU Stevenson Cancer Center to get double confirmation from an oncologist + figure out next steps. I will forever remember my mom’s phone call. I was in the last day of a YMCA […]
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