Four Four Oh Four

About Me

Name: Kerry Grace

Location: Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Life's Good. Life's Good. But not fair at all. My husband received a liver transplant April 4, 2004, eleven and a half months after learning he had hepatitis C, type 1a. The sneaky virus was brewing hepatocellular carcinoma before ever revealing itself in symptoms. The virus continued to sneak and in February 2005 he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. In March he started combination interferon and ribavirin therapy to catch and kill the nasty sneak and its latest trick. The lymphoma outran the combo and, keeping up the fight, he started ICE chemotherapy in June 2005. He died in December 2005.

Monday, February 12, 2007

Two Twelve Oh Seven

I’ve taken away Michael’s blog. Given it away. I have now given away his medical paraphernalia, his paperbacks, his tools, his sweaters, his shirts and ties, his clothes and his furniture that doesn’t fit in my new home. Clearing out is painful, long, sad and necessary.

A year ago I wrote that I was going to end this blog. It's seemed fitting; the right thing to do. I couldn’t do it then. I probably can’t do it now, and may regret this tomorrow. Now, however, I know that I have to.

I no longer can write about Michael. He is dead. He is gone. I always was drawn to the numbers and it is not lost on me that I started this February 14, 2005. A Monday. It is now February 12, 2007. Two years. A Monday. It is sad and painful, but I have to go.