The Love of My Life: My Wife, Lorna

My wife Lorna was the love of my life. In May 2023, she got diagnosed with glioblastoma. She went through the surgery, radiation, and chemo in between treatments. She loved to go thrifting to buy trinkets and treasures for everyone. I took a leave of absence from work to take her everywhere and do whatever she wanted. Sometimes, it would be to pick driftwood at the beach, rocks, or pinecones up in the mountains, just to craft things with those treasures. The tumor ultimately came back. 

We were doing a different treatment, and it was working, but she ended up having a stroke and passing away on New Year’s Day 2025. She was my whole life. We spent 46 years together raising three kids. She was a wife, her mother, a grandmother, and a great-grandmother. She’s missed dearly by everyone who came in contact with her. 

I’m here just existing. I had to do something to keep busy so I started advocating for brain cancer awareness. I put up signs that say “wear gray in May.” I’ve made gray ribbons with her favorite flowers on them to pass them out to bring more awareness to this deadly disease. Some days are tougher than others, so I take a ride to some of our favorite places, but it’s not the same. No one to hold hands with, no one to cuddle with at night, and most of all, no one to talk to. My life, the way I knew it, ended.

There needs to be other treatments, less harsh, because the brain cancer patient going through all those treatments has no quality of life.

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