Remembering Wendy Jo

Posted on July 15, 2015 by Chris Savage

Wendy Jo was kind of a realist. She had accepted her fate some time ago and sought to find peace within herself. She had (in her own words) a very inappropriate sense of humor about her situation because she preferred levity over gloom. She always tried to keep people from feeling uncomfortable about her situation by telling jokes or in other ways. The trick was to get a laugh instead of a cry or sad face. Continue reading →

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Wendy Has Passed

Posted on July 14, 2015 by Chris Savage

Be at peace my wife. Thank you for the best 15 years of my life! You will be missed.

Wendy Jo Savage 1970-2015

Wendy Jo Savage 1970-2015

I will post more later. We (family) need some time right now. Thank you for your understanding.

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Appreciation

Posted on July 13, 2015 by Chris Savage

I just wanted to take a moment to give thanks to some outside people who have made this whole thing a little easier. This means people who aren’t here dealing with this directly, but who have gone out of their way to help us out in any way possible. Continue reading →

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Where We’re Currently At

Posted on July 10, 2015 by Chris Savage

Okay, this will be the final detailed post on Wendy’s condition. The next update on Wendy won’t be until after she’s passed on. That said it’s been a very crazy week and as Wendy would do I am going to issue a TMI warning and say do not read any further if you don’t want the details. I only post this because I know this is what Wendy would post. Okay, you’ve been warned… Continue reading →

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Help Is Here

Posted on July 9, 2015 by Chris Savage

…but things aren’t going good for Wendy. Her condition has deteriorated since yesterday. Becky arrived and Josh and Megan helped us yesterday. Josh helped me move furniture so we could move Wendy into a bigger room and Megan picked up supplies and picked up Becky from the airport. Continue reading →

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Help Is On The Way!

Posted on July 6, 2015 by Chris Savage

So things got crazy over the last few days. Sure. My last post was evidence of that. However there was some background discussion going on that I originally wasn’t fully aware of. Wendy’s sister, Becky, who came out to visit back in April with her husband Scott from New York, was talking to Wendy in the background about coming out to help her out. Continue reading →

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Things Are Getting Worse

Posted on July 5, 2015 by Chris Savage

As Wendy previously posted, June 30 was our anniversary, however we weren’t able to do everything we’d planned to do because Wendy didn’t have the energy. She slept most of the trip to Tahoe and most of the way back as well. While it was a bummer that we couldn’t do the boat ride, I was happy she got to see Joe and we both realized things were starting to get worse. Apparently that was just the tip of the iceberg. Continue reading →

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Anniversary Road Trip

Posted on June 30, 2015 by Wendy Jo Savage

June 30th is our wedding anniversary and this year, due to our circumstances, Parallax was kind enough to give Chris the day off, despite this normally being a mandatory work day for year end clean-up and such. We decided to take a road trip to Lake Tahoe for the day. We weren’t sure we’d be able to go because the morning before, I woke up in severe pain and we weren’t sure why. We decided if I was okay this morning we’d go. Continue reading →

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Help from Hospice

Posted on June 28, 2015 by Wendy Jo Savage

I mentioned in my last blog post that I was referred to Hospice by my Oncologist. Last week Hospice contacted me and I was formally admitted to the Hospice program. Since then people from Hospice have been in and out getting my information and the support I need to move forward from this point.  Continue reading →

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Haircuts Today

Posted on June 22, 2015 by Chris Savage

With Wendy’s internal thermostat going bonkers all the time she sometimes gets too hot, especially in this summer heat here in CA. As we’re both from NY we both battle the heat and today we both got haircuts. Really short haircuts. I will post Wendy’s photo here (complete with smile) and mine on my blog.

Wendy's New Haircut

Wendy’s New Haircut

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