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Home is where the heart is
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The Life and Times of Marta Mellinger. Home is where the heart is. Just a quick update: Marta came home last night from a two week stay in the hospital. She is handling her symptoms well and is eating some fairly bland foods. She aspires to eat more advanced stuff… like butternut squash with goat cheese. I’m not making this up. We want to broadly thank all of her well wishers and community prayer that helped sustain her and me over the past several weeks. The Purpose of My Blog. Here is my growing list:.
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Marta Mellinger:1952 - 2013
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The Life and Times of Marta Mellinger. All things come to an end. Sometimes life overtakes us and this truth has taken on greater meaning for me over the past year. It is with great sadness that I write this final post for Marta Mellinger. Marta passed away on September 13, 2013, overtaken by a particularly rare and aggressive form of ovarian cancer. You can read her published obituary at The Oregonian. In so many ways, BlazerLady was an expression of Marta’s passionate engagement with the question:.
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I get to eat toast, or beginning solid foods after 10 days
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The Life and Times of Marta Mellinger. I get to eat toast! Another guest post by David Frackelton, upon my instructions and taking my dictation Marta. So Marta’s gut is beginning to work. We’ve got consistent output. Marta ate her first solid food this AM (English Muffin). Now she is eating the basmati rice pictured to the left. This is what progress looks like! Marta says: “. The Purpose of My Blog. When it comes to my Big Rocks. Here is my growing list:. My Work in the World. Seth Godin's daily blog.
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Marta Health Update 05.10.13
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The Life and Times of Marta Mellinger. Marta Health Update 05.10.13. Ready for making a better future. I will starting writing again now. There will be two types of blog posts. Anything not labeled a Health Update will ramble at least some. Promise. To lay me down and die. THANK YOU for getting me through that horrible week. My bowels were not working. I had a DNF (do not feed) marker on my chart because all food that went in came right back out. So no food went in. Finally we moved into action. The gent...
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Blazer Lady, The Life and Times of Marta Mellinger - Part 2
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The Life and Times of Marta Mellinger. I get to eat toast! Another guest post by David Frackelton, upon my instructions and taking my dictation Marta. So Marta’s gut is beginning to work. We’ve got consistent output. Marta ate her first solid food this AM (English Muffin). Now she is eating the basmati rice pictured to the left. This is what progress looks like! Marta says: “. The limits of knowledge. And so we reached the milestone of a week in the hospital last night. Read More →. Here is a link to inf...
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The limits of medical knowledge and living with not knowing
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The Life and Times of Marta Mellinger. The limits of knowledge. This is a guest column by my husband, David Frackelton. I’m continuing to do the battle of the bulge, specifically my bloated belly. If you do anything for yourself today, be thankful for a functioning bowel. – Marta. 8220;This has been the most difficult week of my life,” Marta said to me last night. I don’t agree, but then I’ve only been a witness to her suffering. And so we reached the milestone of a week in the hospital last night. It mu...
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Marta is back in the hospital on April 27th
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The Life and Times of Marta Mellinger. Back in the hospital. Another guest article by my husband. – Marta. By the end of last week, were struggling at home — keeping Marta from food and hydration failure — and landed back in the hospital on Saturday (4/27) afternoon. Herein lies a story of success. Getting Marta stabilized. Getting healthcare forces marshalled. And by today, she is much better. Marta has a confounding disease. The Purpose of My Blog. All modern browsers will allow you to subscribe to thi...
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The story of getting your big rocks into the jar
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The Life and Times of Marta Mellinger. As we were driving to Salem last night to run a concepting charrette for a new “history center” at the Oregon State Capitol (great project, by the way) Dave asked me to add some context comments and lists to the blog. You’ll see those posted to the side. One of the categories I’ve entitled “My Big Rocks”. Thought most of you will have heard that metaphor, but read on if you haven’t. She says, “What’s this? She says, “Is it empty or is it full? 8220;Let’s see,&...
