Lovely words.

Thank you Joan for this touching essay. I have read of your husband in small mentions here and there. I'm glad you've written about him at length so we could sort of get to know him. I'm not going to end this by making some sort of Pollyanna comment that everything will be as it was before... You're story made me…

Thanks for your reply. I am at home. Maybe it's time to experiment on what's left!

Until last year I had long hair past my waist. I got fed up with it and had it cut quite short. I'd forgotten how awful my hair looked short... I'm stuck with it now. It would take forever to grow it out and I don't have forever unfortunately.

Oh Emily. Thank you for writing this. Thank you thank you thank you. I went through this second hand with my late husband. Your essay brought so much back and gave me a good cry. I've lost touch with so much of my feelings that at times I punish myself for not being able to remember how it all was. Your essay opened…

One of the judges guessed Tina Fey.

Very good advice!

Believe it or not, there used to be guns made out of black licorice. 

Candy cigarettes??? Be still my heart. Where can you buy these nowadays?

The scam involving posing as an agent and humiliating would be actors is something I heard about a few years ago. I wonder if that was her or maybe that is where she got the idea? I haven't seen her perform so I don't know how believable her persona is. Posing as agent Alison Mossey... Did the people auditioning…

The Pumpkin sleep mask sounds wonderful but if you have a dog that sleeps in your bed, this is a no go.

The Pumpkin sleep mask sounds wonderful but if you have a dog that sleeps in your bed, this is a no go.

Soda and cigs 

I’ve always said that I would do whatever I had to, to stay alive. I remember my mom saying that as she aged, she got more comfortable with the inevitability of death. I thought she was just trying to soothe me but as I have grown older I get the meaning.

You’re welcome. I hope things settle. I feel I need to tell you that if your husband goes into hospice care at home or in a hospice that all diagnostic procedures stop and the focus turns to painkilling meds and keeping him comfortable. At least in my husband’s case, we were advised that diagnostic tests would bounce…

No, I've never read it. Thanks for the recommendation.

PS if you would like to keep in touch, and if I can be of any help to you, if you can get an email address to me that would be fine with me.

Yes, chemo isn’t advised for the metastatic brain tumors because it doesn’t work. What did work was stereotactic knife radiation and then a round of whole brain radiation when the tumors reappeared. But he reached the point that we knew the brain tumors had again started growing. He was seeing things that weren’t…

First of all, I was where you are now. My husband was diagnosed with stage IV cancer six years ago and he died late 2018. He too had brain tumors that he had treated with stereotactic brain radiation

My parents grew up during the Great Depression. Their descriptions of their parents and their childhoods and the lasting effect it had on them sounds very much akin to yours, Joan.

Do any laptops come with CD players anymore?

Do any laptops come with CD players anymore?