2 weeks ago, my best friend and my husband, Larry Levene, died. After 18 months of battling Stage 4 colorectal cancer, he no longer had any more treatment options as the cancer was winning. In the beginning of 2019, we had gone to the next stage of treatment after his first 6 months of chemotherapy, […]
On Wednesday, we arrived in New Jersey and got back to Fran and Joel’s apartment, all of us exhausted. We were hungry though and made it over to Cafe Italiano just up the road, where David, Donna, and Brad met up with us for dinner. It was obviously hard to see people now in person but it […]
Larry died on Tuesday morning, Jan 7, 2020, at 1:20am. Monday, we were basically waiting on him to finally surrender. Sveta came over, and we all started listening to the many favorite tunes of Larry’s while waiting, which helped make the mood a bit more celebratory than the dread it had been when it was silent or the […]
We’ve started 24-hour hospice care. Later on Saturday, Larry started moaning and we realized that we needed to call the hospice number. I told them what was going on and they agreed, sending Edison, an LVN, over at 6pm and through to 8am the first night, to be able to take care of Larry. Larry really stopped being responsive at this time, […]
These two days were a blur, to be honest. Larry finally is in what are the end stages – minimal consciousness, although when there was, especially on Thursday, he sometimes understood what was going on but mostly he was upset as we wouldn’t let him hold his glass of water by himself or feed himself, and […]