Cancer Support

In fact, I think someone must have been cutting onions in somewhere around here.

We are both doing pretty good. I'm the worry wart of the family and waiting for the other shoe to drop if there is another shoe to drop once they can get a good biopsy of the tumor. But I think it will be OK. The boyfriend keeps a positive outlook - he says the patients he sees with positive outlooks always seem to do better (he does CTs and MRIs).

We're both more worried about his mom and step-dad. We visited last weekend and he didn't look too good. He was just getting over the effects of having a bile duct clogged which caused him to go jaundiced (that's how they discovered the tumors). They put a stent in to clear the obstruction so hopefully that will make him feel better in the short-run. Hopefully he will rally a bit and enjoy some of the time he has.

Fortunately, they sold their acreage and home in the country last November 2011. The plan was if something happened to one of them the other didn't want to live out in the country alone. I remember his mom crying to me about selling the house they loved so much but she didn't want to have to go through the process alone. I guess they did the right thing. The good news is she is close to the boyfriend's two sisters. We are 3 hours away. Having the sisters a couple blocks away is a big comfort to us. Also, one of the sisters is a Nurse so she is helpful with the medical aspects.

I'll keep you posted. Surgery is Tuesday.