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21440. thoughtful - 3/29/2007 6:23:15 PM Man, does it never end? Now mom has a bladder infection...got a call about midnight last night for me to come over. They're also checking to see if she has pneumonia. Great. She's on antibios and I hope she's well enough to see the oncologist tomorrow.
And I got a mammo scare which fortunately turned out to be nothing...thank goodness, but I really didn't need the worry, at least not now.
Sigh.
Breathe.
Have a chocolate bar.
Snuggle with the cat. 21441. Magoseph - 3/29/2007 8:05:15 PM Just saying hello to all of you--The two-car garage is down--now the slab under it is going and the noise's deafening. See you when the crew has finished. It's been a few days of hell around here. 21442. wonkers2 - 3/29/2007 8:11:04 PM Mago, why did you tear your garage down? 21443. Magoseph - 3/29/2007 9:25:38 PM We were obliged to add ten feet to a lot we sold last summer--we still have the original garage converted years ago into a guest room that will be reverted to use this summer, Wonk. 21444. Magoseph - 3/29/2007 9:28:06 PM The crew just left--the place looks good. We have kept part of the slab under the removed garage and now I can have a party--plenty of parking space. 21445. Magoseph - 3/29/2007 9:31:28 PM Between the house and the removed garage, there's a beautiful fir tree that is showing well now. Flexy planted it when he was 14. A neighbor went by and exclaimed, "I never noticed this tree before--what a beauty! 21446. arkymalarky - 4/1/2007 12:08:08 AM Love the new April Fools tags, Wabbit! (aren't some of them new?)
I always have mixed feelings about not being in school on April Fools Day.
Hang in there, Thoughtful, and let us know how your mother's appointment went when you get a chance. I'm glad your mammo follow-up turned out okay. 21447. wonkers2 - 4/1/2007 4:25:53 AM Happy April Fool's Day to Moties from Cap'n Dirty 21448. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 4/1/2007 4:54:46 PM Thanks wonk, I was fooled!
 21449. jexster - 4/1/2007 5:48:58 PM DO NOT USE HUB PAGES
You'll get the Ralph Deeds virus...mailbox fills rapidly 21450. wonkers2 - 4/2/2007 3:57:50 AM HubPages Story 21451. thoughtful - 4/2/2007 1:39:02 PM Well, I think Mom's decided to skip the chemo entirely. Radiation does nothing to improve survivability and 2 different oncologists have suggested the average increase in survivability from chemo is 4-7%. The stats are what's swaying her. To me, it's that they give you the chemo now when you have the odds of feeling the best you will ever feel again for the rest of whatever life you have left. In other words, it drastically alters your remaining quality of life for the very low odds that it will increase your length of life. Given that she's 82 this month, and given how sensitive she's always been to any drugs, she'd rather live her life to the best she can for now, monitor her situation and then she can always decide for chemo at some future date when the cancer reappears.
As I told her, there's no clear path here...there's no wrong answer. What's most important is that she choose according to what she thinks will give her the least likelihood of regrets in the future should things turn out differently. 21452. wonkers2 - 4/2/2007 2:13:36 PM Her decision makes sense to me. The older I get the more I think about end-of-life circumstances and decisions. 21453. thoughtful - 4/2/2007 2:51:12 PM me too, wonks, esp since I just had a bday on saturday. The horror at realizing how old I am and the irony that I'm as young as I'll ever be again. 21454. alistairConnor - 4/2/2007 3:12:14 PM Good for her. My dad, retrospectively, would have been better without the chemo, which hastened rather than delayed his death. 21455. wonkers2 - 4/2/2007 4:26:33 PM H*A*P*P*Y B*I*R*T*H*D*A*Y!!! 21456. thoughtful - 4/2/2007 5:27:32 PM thanks wonks!
21457. judithathome - 4/2/2007 11:39:28 PM Thoughtful, I wholeheartedly support your mom's choice here...as you say, she can always opt for it later.
It is so dibillitating to go through a course of radiation OR chemo. She should hang on to however many good feeling days she can because after that stuff starts, those days are over. Then, it's just a question of what days you feel less shitty... 21458. betty - 4/3/2007 12:00:06 AM Just wanted to stop in and say Hi. It's nice to see old names. 21459. jexster - 4/3/2007 2:12:50 AM Yo Betty!
Happy Birfday T'less....Many happy returns. Hope you're virus free. My mailbox isn't
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