FB memories showed me a photo from a year ago - CMM and me visiting my friend who had the heart transplant and his wife. CMM looked pretty good then - not like someone who would be dead in nine months. Cancer is terrible. But I feel privileged to have walked that journey with him.
Finally got my new carpet shampooer out and cleaned the carpet in my family room. It’s a lot of work! Thankfully I have my oldest son to help me move furniture. It looks great now though - I plan to do one room at a time. Bit by bit.
I hope spring brings light and hope to all here. Do something nice for someone today.
UGH - prayers please. My friend's husband just had a chest xray which shows what is likely an aggressive lung cancer. I'm devastated for them, and it's also bringing me flashbacks of the day CMM was diagnosed. Nonsmoker, fit guy in his early 60's.
On BD H52, W50 T27, M26 S21, D23 BD-9-Mar-16 D-15-Jan-18 Final-19-Apr-18 I am a storyteller. The story may do you no good. But a story is never for the listener. It is always for the one who tells
Really sorry to hear this KML. Cancer s*x. Lost a high school friend to cancer about a month ago and just found out another one, my roommate our first year of college, has terminal breast cancer. Both friends are (were) 53 years old. I’m pretty sure I will get it at some point in my life given my family history. Just a question of when and what kind. (((KML)))
DV - keep your vitamin D levels up. Pretty good research about low vitamin D as a risk factor for breast cancer and other cancers (my old professor in medical school was the first person to notice this association in the 1980's).
Wow. Just - WOW. Y'all have powerful prayers! Ya must have some kind of direct line to the almighty because my friend's husband's CT scan today was - CLEAR!!! What the radiologist read as an almost 4 cm new nodule on his chest xray was - nothing! An illusion!!! PHEW!
All there was was a little tiny bit of mucus plugging in one spot. We're thinking now that maybe his profuse nightsweats for the past 2 months might just be due to a little atelectasis?
BTW - anyone who likes time travel scifi out there - I am really enjoying this German series Dark on Netflix. It's pretty well dubbed. Set in a small German town next to a nuclear power plant. It involves missing children and time travel - I won't say anything more. But I'm digging it. The further in it gets, the more the paradoxes of time travel emerge.
I'll check it out. I love legit science fiction like Interstellar and The Martian. Fantasy sci-fi where "science" is magic doesn't do it for me. 'Dark' sounds interesting.
Cancer is terrible. But I feel privileged to have walked that journey with him.