Monday, January 14, 2008

So my Mom has Cancer

She is pretty young (or pretty and young ha!) to be on a deathbed. They found a cyst on an ovary looking at a scan for a previous gall bladder surgery (I've heard she is lucky they even noticed it at the bottom of the scan). This poor lady has had more surgeries that anyone I know. So to have ovarian cancer is totally not fair to her. I think she will make it, they operated and do not believe it spread (caught it very early), but now they (the smart doctors) want to do three (3) chemo treatments to be "extra sure" (read: cover their backsides). From what I was told, most post-op plans for this type of cancer have six (6) chemo treatments, so 3 is less than 6, which is good. Zero is even lower, but you can't always have zero I guess.
My wife's mother died of this exact cancer when my wife was in her 20's. So if my mom goes too, then our kid(s) will not have a grandma... That, to me, is sadder than anything else about this. So I am praying for her and I think many other people are too. I think she will be ok, but I do have a strong desire for her to be ok that clouds my ability to rationally process her condition completely. I will update this as events unfold. Just hope my blog does not pop up on google results for searches including words like funer.. I guess typing it won't help.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I too have thought about Eleanor not having either Grandma and how devastating that would be. Needless to say, I don't think about it much.

Mom will survive this and be stronger in mind and body for it- I just know it.

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