Tell me if you had a cool $1.9M in your pocket, you wouldn’t have bought this sweet painting, too. Nude Bea Arthur Painting By John Currin Sells For $1.9 Million At Christie’s Auction Huffington Post, May 16, 2013

Bea Arthur · Golden Girls · NSFW · nude · painting

Unless this is your first time visiting this blog and you don’t know me or my family, you know too-well the hell Kirsten and our family have endured these past few months as we persevere through her declining health. While it’s always difficult to document my deep sadness and enumerate my frustrations, this post is [...]

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Kirsten and I again traveled to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston Thursday. It wasn’t a scheduled follow-up appointment, but after the week Kirsten recently spent in the hospital, and the possibility that her hypertensive crisis episodes are chemo-related, Dr. Kulke wanted to see her before she starts her next round. Our appointment was too early [...]

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Hayley is turning ten Tuesday. She loves to bake. My buddy Suzanne is a professional baker. Their personalities are similar. You see what’s happening here, don’t you? I had asked Suzanne to bake Hayley a cake for her birthday. Not only did she accept, she invited Hayley over to help her bake it. How perfect [...]

baking · birthday · friends · hayley · Suzanne

If you use a Mac, you should be using Alfred. Seriously. In late 2011, at the insistence of my friend Adam, I switch to Alfred from Quicksilver. Life since has been nothing but complete bliss. Alfred just makes using your Mac easier. A quick ⌘+Space key combination opens the Alfred interface (If, like me, you [...]

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Saturday I spent a lot of time with Kirsten this past weekend, just enjoying her company. We went to breakfast at the Palace Diner in Biddeford, did some grocery shopping, and watched a movie at the theater. Then we laid in bed and watched The Office on my iPad. Family Night Tonight we had family [...]

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10:44 Dr. Devon Evans came in while we were talking to Dr. Ross Isacke. They’re still running the 24-hour urine test, which we hope will provide some answers. Dr. Evans doesn’t think it’s a chemo-related problem (tumor lysis syndrome), because we would likely have seen it several-fold more severe during the higher dose in the [...]

cancer · kirsten · maine medical center · MMC

I took the girls to see Kirsten at the hospital tonight. Kirsten had a difficult day, and it showed. It was very nice, though, for the girls to see her and for her to see them. The mood was somber, but with a lot of love (with an almost urgent, purposeful feel, which is weird). [...]

cancer · kirsten · maine medical center · MMC

Kirsten hasn’t suffered any hypertensive crisis episodes since yesterday morning, which is fantastic. Doctors continue to run tests, and we wait for their analysis, which takes days. They want to keep her in the hospital to monitor her for safety reasons, as the episodes are potentially life-threatening. Endocrine is still leaning toward a chemo-related cause, [...]

cancer · health · hospital · kirsten · maine medical center · NET Cancer

This post has a lot of pictures. You can click on them to see a larger versions. Kirsten and I traveled to Boston last Monday for another visit to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, where she had a PET scan in preparation for an appointment with Dr. Kulke the following day. The scan was uneventful. When it [...]

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