Dallas has been at home with Harold resting all weekend & is very nauseous due to the radiation & increased pain medication (morphine). We do have a new anti-nausea prescription that hospice provided so hope that will assist. Mom will be receiving radiation every day this week @ 10:30am which we really hope will help with her lower left back pain which is still severe. They will also determine if she'll receive her monthly Zometa treatment(intravenous medication for the bone cancer to help reduce fractures). Thanks in advance for your prayers!
Dallas received a nice visit today from family (Deidra, Ann & Casey) who prepared lots of home-made high calorie meals for mom & Harold. Thank you so much for that the thoughtful gesture! Mom looks forward to feeling better so she can eat more & needs to keep her weight up. Her Hospice Nurse will be out to the house every day this week and Dallas' children Jack & Winona will be spending this upcoming weekend with her.
Again, we appreciate your well wishes and prayers for Dallas. We hope that she is feeling better and in less pain very soon.
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Mom (Ann), Casey and I really enjoyed our visit today with Sissy. We all enjoyed fixing some meals that we hope she and Harold will enjoy. Although I did tell Harold that he might want to jog a mile to work off the amount of cream I put in the potato soup!
While I know Sissy is really struggling to manage her pain, we all thought that she looked really good. And that hair!
We'll be looking forward to hearing that the anti-nausea medicine is working and that we need to bring more food - I just know that it will.
I have to get everyone to bed now but, here's a teaser: Sissy was telling a great story about how she became stagestruck . . . stay tuned.
Thank you girls.....Sissy was really impressed with her dinners.... I will be interested in the stagestruck story.....see if it matches some of our family experiences....strange things run through families!!!!!!
Thanks Ann, Casey and Deirdre for the special attention you have given Sissy--it really means a lot.
Okay, here's the story:
I was telling Sissy about the incredible performance of Midsummer Night's Dream we saw in New Mexico. (Check out details and pics on the Whippleworld blog)
She really enjoyed hearing about the unique way it was staged and how marvelous the acting was. Then she said, "Do you know Midsummer Night's Dream was the first professional theatrical performance I ever saw? It was in London and I was just blown away." She said from that time on she knew she wanted to be involved in the theater - that's what she wanted to do for life. Then she told us that she got out the phone book and just looked up acting schools and wrote off to them. She didn't know that some of the schools she was writing to were some of the most prestigious schools around. Ignorance is bliss because she took a chance that she might not have taken if she had been overawed by the fact that she was applying to a school that was affiliated with Cambridge! Maybe we can get her to retell the story and record it because I know I didn't do it justice.
Anyway, I love hearing about Sissy's passion for the stage. I still remember going to see her in a Melodrama theater over on Austin Highway when I was in ... 5th grade?
So Cassell, do you know more of this story?
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