87 days ago by Ken Wheatley

It took me a bit to select the clothes Sheila was going to wear. She doesn’t have high collar blouses and I had to also consider that whatever I was going to dress her in, she is going to be cremated in. I know it’s really stupid, and a bit irrational, but I found myself selecting her bra based on h ...

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95 days ago by Ken Wheatley

You just never know when it’ll strike. Willard called this morning around 6:30 to check on how Sheila was doing, and then I got more text messages from some friends. When I first woke up to Willard’s call I found myself sprawled out diagonally on the king-sized bed with my head on the pillow Sheila ...

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96 days ago by Ken Wheatley

Today is Sheila’s birthday. Her one and only wish for weeks was to spend the weekend in a cottage on the beach and have a party with friends and family between the beach and cottage. So I booked a one bedroom cottage at the Hotel Del Coronado in their Beach Village section. It’s a beautiful place wi ...

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102 days ago by Ken Wheatley

Sheila’s still not able to reliably drive on her own – mainly due to sudden barfing attacks and drowsiness – so various family and friends took turns staying with her all week when I went to work. Even though she’s getting sick less times per day than she was two weeks ago, she’s still not holding h ...

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108 days ago by Ken Wheatley

The IV fluids and anti-nausea Zofran worked and we left the ER around 10:30am. We were both pretty exhausted by the time we got home, so we crashed for a few hours and then I went and filled Sheila’s prescriptions. She was taking Zofran pills at home and they weren’t working, mainly because she was ...

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108 days ago by Ken Wheatley

It’s about 8:20am, and we’ve been here since 5am. We went to bed around 10:30pm, but she was up and down most of the night barfing. So at 3:45am, while she was curled up on the bathroom floor in the master bedroom begging for relief, we decided it was time to head to the ER. She hasn’t been able to ...

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109 days ago by Ken Wheatley

I took vacation this past week to spend time with my daughter, Tammy, and her boyfriend, Ron who flew into town last Sunday and left today. It was great seeing them. Unfortunately we didn’t get to spend as much time doing things together as we would have hoped. The three of us went deep sea fishing ...

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109 days ago by Ken Wheatley

I guess I should have known that at some point this would happen, I just didn’t think it would be from a family member. Sheila and I started our blogs primarily to keep family and close friends informed of what was going on with her. Prior to doing that we were, understandably, swamped with phone ca ...

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120 days ago by Ken Wheatley

Not sure exactly what’s going on, but things have changed a bit since we’ve been home. Sheila’s different and I’ve definitely been more edgy. Obviously part of it is my biopsy tomorrow, and her 13 day hospital stay. But there’s something else. It’s a combination of her weight loss – almost 2 lbs a d ...

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123 days ago by Ken Wheatley

Yesterday and today have been a flurry of doctor visits and surprises. The emphasis has been on getting Sheila to the point that she could function on pills and not IVs so that she could go home – something that everyone has been trying to accomplish since Wednesday. So a good deal of time was spent ...

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