A Toast to Tricia

We've scheduled a celebration in Tricia's honour to celebrate all of the paint that she splattered into each of our lives. If we've missed you on the invitation, please send an email to Lui at lantonini48@gmail.com.

The Tide Is Out

We had the honour of being with our dear Tricia as she passed peacefully in the early hours of August 7, 2019. As parents, seeing your child die is your worst nightmare but knowing her suffering has ended is consolation.

A Celebration of Life will take place at a later date and will be communicated to friends and family when finalized.

Tricia’s plan was for her blog to remain open to be read, shared and enjoyed.  This will be the last post to Tricia’s Tides.

Toasting and embracing life was her passion.  Please toast her today and whenever the occasion is right!

An Update from Tricia

Tricia asked me to write this post for her (it's Tasha).

Tricia has been at the hospice for a while and so if you haven't heard much from her, you'll know why.  She still needs a lot of quiet time, so if you feel like communicating with her, posting to her blog is best.  Marie is with her much of the time and will read the messages to her when she's up for it.

Thank you for all of your positive thoughts!

New Reality

I saw my oncologist yesterday and she told me that continuing chemo will cause my body more harm than good.  Based on my fatigue and quality of life, she feels it is time to rely on palliative care only.  My plan has always included hospice which is where my friend Ryan spent his last weeks.  We are coming to terms with this news and will make plans in the next few weeks.

Thank you for your continued offers of help and support.  Right now between my parents, Brandon and Tasha (who is writing this for me now), I have all that I need and all that I have the energy to manage.  I do want to thank you for continuing to send me your positive thoughts and prayers, I will continue to need those over the upcoming weeks.

More Tired Days

I just wanted to say hi and give a quick update.  I've been doing chemo since I last talked to you and I've had a lot of fatigue.  I spend most of my days doing three things:  sleeping, trying to eat and swallowing chemo pills.   I am having a bit of a hard time recalling some words and have very limited time with people.  We've had a couple of visits from close friends & family who came to Calgary to see me.  During those visits, I spent most of the time sleeping and had little bouts of energy for visiting.  I've been spending most of my time at home with my mom helping me do a lot of day to day things and helping me when my visitors arrived.  My evenings are spent with my dad and Lucy watching sports and game shows.  I'm hoping for some more strength in coming weeks but will just have to see how it goes and go from there. 

Thanks for all of the love and thoughts sent my way.  Because I'm so tired, I haven't been able to respond as much as I'd like to, so I'm depending more on my mom and Tasha to do that for me.

Back To Chemo

Hello to everyone and belated Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

Since my last post I have been on a six week “chemo vacation”, my oncologist supported me in taking this break. On December 20th, I started back on my previous chemo regime which I will continue going forward. My fatigue continues to be my biggest challenge with a few other side effects lingering as well.

I was able to share Christmas with my family ...

and an evening with Tasha’s family as well.

Otherwise the holiday time was “chill” and quiet.

Again I thank everyone for your support and wish you the best for 2019!