Life With Boys

Coincidences are a funny thing … Do we read more into them when we need to? Coincidence 1 —A bird flew into my house when I was holding it open for Brian to bring in luggage on Wednesday evening. One legend states: A wild bird flying into one’s house is a portent of ill luck,… Continue reading

I know many of you are waiting for the details and I’ve been a bit too overwhelmed to sit down and get it done. But now that Mindy, her family and Dad have returned to Utah I have a few minutes to complete the saga. So now, here is the rest of the story …We… Continue reading

LaNonne (Lani) LiAnne Beck (nee Solomon) died January 6, 2006 after complications of pneumonia and a staph infection at the age of 60. She was born February 2, 1945 in Glendale, California to AraBelle (Solomon) Zeimet and James L. Solomon. Lani was raised in South Dakota by her mother AraBelle and step-father Peter Zeimet from… Continue reading

As I was dropping off my family at the car rental return, I burst into tears (of course). Tyler snuggled up next to me and said, “sometimes people leave, but you don’t need to cry.” Continue reading

Mom passed away at 12:29 a.m. Continue reading

I don’t have good news to report. This morning two more chest tubes were added and her kidneys are starting to fail. The OSRA infection is spreading and is not responding to the antibiotics.The docs give her a 20% chance of making it, and it’s decreasing rapidly.We have given instructions that if her heart stops… Continue reading

OK — it has a name Oxacillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (OSRA) — this strain has been conquered by the drug she is on now Vancomycin. (She’s been on it for about 20 hours now.) It is infections and now to go see her we wear gowns and gloves and need to launder everything she’s or… Continue reading

I wish I had good news to report this morning. The cultures have revealed that she has a Staph aureus infection that has spread to all five lobes of her lungs. A normal x-ray will show black with your rib bones. An infected x-ray will look cloudy. Mom’s x-ray has clouds on both sides. One… Continue reading

Hello – Mom is stable. Her heart rate and respiration is in the range they desire. She is still heavily sedated so she doesn’t try (again) to get out of bed and remove the tube. We’re still waiting on tests that should give us a few more pieces of the puzzle. She’ll remain in the… Continue reading

Hello — I hate to put it so bluntly, but there is no other way to say it, Mom is in the ICU at Barnes Jewish St. Peters Hospital, St Peters, MO. She has pneumonia and was put on a ventilator early this morning. Background: They arrived from Utah Wednesday evening 12/28. Mom was sick,… Continue reading