tony is anxious for tuesday
when we will meet with robert cameron
the bigshot at UCLA
he is mostly a surgeon but he knows a lot about this stuff
check out the website Pacific Heart and Lung Institute
for some absolutely amazing photographs of these kind of tumors
being removed and the long sheath of tissue that is the tumor itself.
that is only if prurient interest in all this stuff is of interest to you..
it's pretty fascinating actually
if you remove the fact that it's you or your beloved
who is being peeled like a grape from the inside.
breathing is being appreciated a bit more
as it's getting difficult from time to time-
oxygen tanks are dotting the landscape tonight.
not sure if it's the cancer or the congestive heart failure
from the atrial fib
which has been pretty much unchecked for over a year.
and we have no viable cardiologist who actually calls us back
so we are so grateful to the menschy oncologist who actually calls back within a few mintues and offers clear, wise and simple advice
so.. we love lasix and pray for lots of liquid moving out of the body.
not much to do except wait for the surgeon,
start the chemo when we can , if we can and so it goes.
up to this point he has felt well so this marks a bit of a change
but he may be just fine again tomorrow
the details of the survival months start to become more apparent
to us
and we are striving for balance
as we make decisions about what is best,
when we seek what aid, what we balance and tough out,
which part of the house we keep as a cancer free zone, if any,
and easy stuff like that.
i gotta go
love
s
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