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Salena Richardson TeamMindy After nearly a year long battle with advanced ovarian cancer. Mindy is entering hospice care. We would like to r
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Salena Richardson TeamMindy After nearly a year long battle with advanced ovarian cancer. Mindy is entering hospice care. We would like to r
For those who have been following my personal journey for the last few months. I wanted to share with you that Mindy passed away this morning while I held her hand, Stanny was curled at her feet and our cat Camille was snuggled at her chest.
My heart is broken and I don’t really know what else to say other than that. I am going to be on a long hiatus because I just don’t have the energy or desire to be here.
Salena Richardson Celebration Of Mindy’s Life Donations will help pay for memorial, medical and family expenses. Mindy Lynne Simpson, 40,
Made it to the hospital. Mindy is getting a CT scan today to get ready for surgery tomorrow. I painted my nails teal for ovarian cancer awareness month in support of my favorite girl.
And then I took an artsy photo while we waited for them to access her port. #becausethatswhatheroesdo
Go to paypal.me/teammindy and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.
I’m posting the link to my PayPal as another way to donate to Mindy and me. I will also make it available in a link or in my bio soon as well.
Three trips to the hospital down. We are both pretty tired from all the traveling (and the road construction! urgh!)But we're home and Mindy's doing well. They did adjust her amount of chemo meds she got during her infusion this time because she's lost so much weight. (11% since the start of treatment) A lot of the initial weight loss was because of all that fluid finally drying up.Her albumin number is at 4! (That's the goal!-it's the protein that measures if she's malnourished or not) And since she's got her nausea under control (and my feeding her rather than crap from rehab)-we finally got that number up! We do still need to work on putting some weight on her but her appetite still isn't great. (Everyone keeps telling her to drink milkshakes -DO NOT suggest that! LOL-the chemo has killed her sweet tooth so it's not as easy as that!) Even all the nutritional drinks are (Ensure,Boost) are too sweet-we cut it with milk to reduce the sweetness but she still does't love it. -So, that's our goal still-work on getting some meat on her bones.I ordered her a little pedal bike (it's just pedals) from Amazon (thanks to those who donated gift cards to us) and she has been able to slowly increase her use with that which is great for building her strength and endurance. Next chemo infusion is July 12. I'm off to work on another project for class (this time it's my gender studies class. TTFN!
I’m going to try to be semi active on this site again-at least keep my queue full again. Looking at Chris/Thor somewhat soothes my heart but I’m going to keep my personal posts to a minimum here for various reasons.
I will keep my side blog going -and I’m going to change the name. It will be geared still towards being trauma informed but also include grief healing posts so if I feel compelled to speak anymore-my personal posts will be there. Once I have changed the name-I’ll share the link.
For those who followed my story/cared about Mindy and me-thank you so much. Moving forward feels like an impossible task at this point but I know it’s something that I have to do even though even looking at Chris Evans (her boy) makes me burst into tears.
She was my person for 25 years. She’s still my person even though she isn’t here anymore and I’ll always love her. Connections like ours don’t come along very often and I’m thankful and grateful to have known her.
Salena Richardson I’m with you till the end of the line. Sharing our borrowed tag line with everyone so we can show Mindy that we’re all wit