First Days at Home

Just a quick post because I know so many of you are wondering how things are going now that we are home.  We got home yesterday shortly after 2pm.  Hospice arrived at our home around 1130am to start getting everything organized for Stefan’s arrival.  They didn’t leave our home until 8pm.  It was a very [...]

Heading Home

Well…… after 6 weeks and 6 days, we’re heading home.  Stef has really wanted to make it home and once again insurance has gotten in the way; so, after talking with Dr. Martin’s nurse, Shelly, for quite some time, meeting with a social worker, and meeting a different hospice team, we have made the decision [...]

Blessed beyond belief tonight…

So I am at dinner with my good friend, Aaron, and I get a call.  It is from our Worship Pastor, Allen.  They have choir/orchestra practice every Wednesday night.  During their practice time, they also have a time of prayer.  Allen called to invite me to practice so the choir could pray for me and [...]

Journey update…

Well, I find myself in a dark place again.  Had a very rough day, both physically and mentally.
It started off good with breakfast with Sandi and Carley.  We had a nice time.  I cherish these moments, for sure.  Then the day went downhill from there.
I had a bad reaction to one of my chemo drugs [...]

Benefit for the Tarapchak Family…

Have you heard the phrase, Life gets in the way of life?  Well it has happened to me and I am very late in getting this post up.
About two weeks ago, my sister hosted a benefit for our family.  It was just fantastic!!  It was held in my hometown of Sharon, PA.  It was so [...]

Aaron is a S.L.O.B.

Yep, my buddy, Aaron, over at Arms Wide Open is a S.L.O.B.
Check out what I mean by clicking here.
Congrats, Aaron!!

RTL Invitational a huge success…

Unbelievable!!  What a day.  The weather was perfect, we had over 100 golfers, and I made it through the entire day!!!
When I pulled into the course and saw everyone there that was supporting me, I was just overwhelmed!  I had friends from college there, co-workers, and friends from church.  I had not seen some of [...]

Home

Well, we are back home.  Hopefully, we will be home for quite awhile.  I know Stefan is glad to be home.  Hopefully, he will gain weight and energy while on TPN.  The home health nursing service came over last night to train me how to connect him and disconnect him each evening and morning to [...]

Refuse to Lose Invitational

At the request of some friends, I have put a new page up, RTL Invitational.
Some good friends of mine wanted to do something for our family.  So, they are putting together a golf outing to support our family in this time of need.  You can get the details from the page.  I have also posted [...]

Went Fishing…

WHAT AN AWESOME TRIP!  Check it out. Left Thursday at 8:15am.  Got to Pensacola, Fl at 9:30pm.  Ate some dinner and hit the hay.  Got up EARLY to be on the boat by 6am.  Fished all day and got off the boat around 5:30pm.  Our first mate had the fish all cut up for us [...]