Friday, July 28, 2006
Friday morning
I'm at home today, resting and coughing, and generally feeling rotten. It's the way people feel after having a tube poked down the throat and then another stuck through the skin. (With any luck at all, the incision on my throat will be in a wrinkle!)
As the previous post states (written by my son), there was no lung surgery yesterday. I talked with the doctor this morning. He said that the PET scan showed cancer in my lymph nodes, and then the mediastenoscopy (another tube in the chest) showed the same, and so it was decided that chemo was best at this time, followed by surgery in a few months.
Not what I wanted to hear. I get to go see him again next week, after I visit with the oncologist. Crud. and @$&^*.
I've been told that the tumor is about the size of a golf ball. (Do I have any golfers in my group? Get out your big clubs!)
Y'know, while I was waiting yesterday, I could feel everyone's presence with me, like y'all were there, holding my hand. Thanks. This awful journey would be unbearable without you.
I'll be back later, gotta go lie down.
Oh, and special thanks to E and K and T. They know why. ¶ 7:40 AM
I'm at home today, resting and coughing, and generally feeling rotten. It's the way people feel after having a tube poked down the throat and then another stuck through the skin. (With any luck at all, the incision on my throat will be in a wrinkle!)
As the previous post states (written by my son), there was no lung surgery yesterday. I talked with the doctor this morning. He said that the PET scan showed cancer in my lymph nodes, and then the mediastenoscopy (another tube in the chest) showed the same, and so it was decided that chemo was best at this time, followed by surgery in a few months.
Not what I wanted to hear. I get to go see him again next week, after I visit with the oncologist. Crud. and @$&^*.
I've been told that the tumor is about the size of a golf ball. (Do I have any golfers in my group? Get out your big clubs!)
Y'know, while I was waiting yesterday, I could feel everyone's presence with me, like y'all were there, holding my hand. Thanks. This awful journey would be unbearable without you.
I'll be back later, gotta go lie down.
Oh, and special thanks to E and K and T. They know why. ¶ 7:40 AM
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Margaret, I just love you! You have been ever-present in my thoughts for practically 24 hours now. I admire your strength and your "outlook." What a strong woman you are.
I pray for you continuously. Asking our Savior to wrap His arms around you and to carry you through this ordeal; that you draw strength from Him as you need it and that He will provide strength from those of us who love you at will. I am with you saying, as so many of us are, "I don't think so, Skippy!" You WILL beat this thing.
God's blessings as you embark upon this journey. Not alone but with all of us--your personal big circle of friends and family.
Camille
I pray for you continuously. Asking our Savior to wrap His arms around you and to carry you through this ordeal; that you draw strength from Him as you need it and that He will provide strength from those of us who love you at will. I am with you saying, as so many of us are, "I don't think so, Skippy!" You WILL beat this thing.
God's blessings as you embark upon this journey. Not alone but with all of us--your personal big circle of friends and family.
Camille
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: 6:03 PM
Now that I have seen for myself, I am satisfied you are doing just fine. I expect you will be on time Monday morning. If not, that's ok too but a few hours will do you a lot of good. I am a lot relieved you are looking after your nutrition and have promised on Buck's fuzzy little head you will continue to do that above anything else, beside getting well, remembering to love your boys, feeding and walking Buck, hugging Enola, reading a new book, and watching that red-neck music TV station.
Wait! You didn't promise all that on Buck's fuzzy little head; Buck has a fuzzy BIG head. YOU'RE the one with the fuzzy little head.
Anyway...
After I got home, I thought about what you looked like and made the momentous decision you look like you are ready to get on with the rest of your life (that would be at least 38 more years). So here it comes sweet thing and this might be one of those "hard parts."
There might be other hard parts to come and there might have been other hard parts before, but this is going to be one of the big ones.
It has been said more times than any of us can count, WE will get through this - the "we" being the hundreds of folks who are using their "powers" to see to you.
And "you" of course. You get to be the one getting well. The rest of "we" get to have the party.
If it takes three months, six months, a year, the next decade, until you are 95, We are going to exert our collective will to get you back to us.
Thanks for the fight. Haven't had a good one in a long, long time and speaking only for me, I am ready. That sumbich is going down.
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Wait! You didn't promise all that on Buck's fuzzy little head; Buck has a fuzzy BIG head. YOU'RE the one with the fuzzy little head.
Anyway...
After I got home, I thought about what you looked like and made the momentous decision you look like you are ready to get on with the rest of your life (that would be at least 38 more years). So here it comes sweet thing and this might be one of those "hard parts."
There might be other hard parts to come and there might have been other hard parts before, but this is going to be one of the big ones.
It has been said more times than any of us can count, WE will get through this - the "we" being the hundreds of folks who are using their "powers" to see to you.
And "you" of course. You get to be the one getting well. The rest of "we" get to have the party.
If it takes three months, six months, a year, the next decade, until you are 95, We are going to exert our collective will to get you back to us.
Thanks for the fight. Haven't had a good one in a long, long time and speaking only for me, I am ready. That sumbich is going down.
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