Re: <RANT> Losing someone
- From: Ranee Mueller <raneemdonot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 09:52:54 -0800
In article <9p3pr1h08kqr58tnk7a2v0sk16reu47ur0@xxxxxxx>,
Bill <bigc300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ou're post really hits home to me Andy! I am very sorry about your
> loss. I have been watching my wife slowly dieing with lung cancer for
> the last year and a half. She went through radiation treatments and
> chemotherapy treatments. Now, she has only weeks according to her
> doctor. Up until a month ago she was taking another course of
> chemotherapy treatments. She was five weeks into a nine week treatment
> once a week. She got so sick in that fifth week she really believed
> the doctor was going to kill her with the treatment. She said no
> more...I will take no more chemotherapy. So, the doctor has turned her
> over to hospice care...we have a hospital bed in the dining room where
> she lies all day...she can get up and walk eight steps to the bathroom
> but other than that she stays in bed all day. It's a terrible disease
> that seems to just keep eating away at her. She smoked.
> I lost my Dad back in June. He smoked too! He contracted a special
> "gum" cancer that only people who both smoke and drink liquor seem to
> catch. It started as a toothache. He got the tooth pulled back in
> January. A couple of weeks went by and it was still hurting him. He
> went back to the dentist and the dentist referred him to another
> doctor who did a biopsy. They determined there was cancer in the gum
> and recommended removing all his teeth and part of his gums saying
> this would probably cure him. It didn't. The cancer kept eating away.
> A sore appeared on his jaw in May as a reddened area. It kept getting
> worse until a hole opened in his jaw. Instead of healing it just kept
> getting larger and larger until he died in June. Slow motion
> death...that's what cancer is.
I'm really sorry to hear this. We've gone through it with our
family, as well.
Regards,
Ranee
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