Bringing Up-to-Date Part 1

Asa 1957

It’s been a long, rough year since I last posted. My dear husband, Asa had been battling cancer (metastasized melanoma) since January of 2005, and after 13 months of biochemotherapy (over 120 days in an ICU unit together), he was proclaimed in remission, with no sign of cancer (below the neck.) In March of 2007, an MRI revealed two tumors in the frontal lobe of his brain. Fast forward through multiple E/R trips for seizures, three gamma knife procedures, the last resulting in a massive stroke the same day (9/24/07), and the final phase of his terminal illness began. I’ll spare my readers more details, but it was a long (too long), painful death. On May 2, 2008, Asa met his Maker, and is now reunited with all those cats he had loved, at the Rainbow Bridge.

I had long referred to him as “The Man Behind the Cats” on my web site with About.com, and on May 3rd, I honored him one last time with my Final Tribute: The Man Behind the Cats.

I’ll continue this saga in Part 2, then it’s back to living again, and none too soon.