I found a post on my website that correlated to when Larry first got “sick”, and we stayed at home that weekend to watch movies: A Weekend of Movies His stomach had been bothering him and I can track when this date actually was as that was the first time we had done a telemedicine […]
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A Hole in the World
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, […]
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Rest in Peace, My Love
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 […]
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Right Before the End
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, […]
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End Stages
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 […]