I Miss You So Much!

 It's been 7 months since Kathy passed and went to the Rainbow Bridge. It's been terribly lonely without her.   There is NO doubt that for weeks Kathy was hanging around the house!  I could feel her presence. Banging noises on the walls, chill in the air in the middle of the night, and PHYSICAL contact when I was laying in bed.  I was laying in bed on me back had my legs crossed one night and suddenly something slapped my foot and knocked it right off my other foot!  It scared the crap out of me, but I just called out to Kathy, told her hoe much I miss her and how much I loved her - but she was scaring me to death!  After that, things got calmer at night and I could finally get a decent night sleep.  I swear - I'm telling the truth!

I try to remember to talk to her everyday to keep her posted of what life is "down here."  It's a crazy mixed up world nowdays and she's not missing much!  Justin and his family miss Kathy a lot too - but not as mch as I do.  It's been 7 months and I still cry when I think of her.  I still call out her name in the middle of the night when I think of her...

My Wife, Kathy Burnett Has Passed Away 2-25-2023

 The worst thing in my life happened on 2-25-2023.  My friend and my wife of 23 years dies in her sleep after a 5 month long battle with Acute Myeloid Leukemia.. I fkn hate cancer.  One week Kathy's walking the neighborhood for an hour and the next she getting a blood sample because her arms & legs were getting spots on them kind of like small bruises.  Kathy thinks it's hives and I think it's something else so we get a quick blood sample at a close by Urgent Care office.

It's Leukemia the doctors say. So I put her in my car and rushed her to our local hospital.  More blood samples confirm the 1st test and the local hospital doesn't treatment for Leukemia. We find a "bed" for Kathy's treatment and rush from Knoxville to the Sarah Cannon Center in Nashville, TN because it was the only place that could treat her immediately.

Ten days later and after aggressive chemo treatment Kathy had to be put on a ventilator because the chemo almost killer her. After 4 weeks in the hospital they sent us home to Knoxville because "there was nothing more they could do."

My wife was terminal.  We  got 4 more months of her which is in itself a miracle because they gave her 2 days - to 2 weeks when we left Nashville.  Watching your loved one die slowly die is absolute misery.  In our case, the treatment was worse than the "cure."  

I love you and miss you my darling!

THE 1ST TIME IN 10 WEEKS AT HOME THAT KATHY HAD THE
ENERGY TO GET OUT OF BED AND EAT SITTING UP.

Kathy having one of her few good days

 

Kathy with Mumu & Maddie before cancer.