I won’t tell you what each of those letters stand for but that’s what ran through my mind after talking to the surgeon on 9/20/08 who discovered that the nodules on the outside of my husbands lung are indeed cancerous. The stage 3 kidney cancer he was diagnosed with 3 years ago has returned by metastasizing to another area in his body. The first diagnosis was a tumor that was embedded in his right kidney and they had to remove the kidney at the same time they removed the tumor because the tumor was so large and to ensure they got everything cancerous out. He had various body scans and follow up visits for about 1 1/2 years after the surgery and nothing else showed up. So we thought it was done.
It’s not.
Now he’s wearing the cancer patient hat again - correction - the person with cancer hat and I’m wearing the caregivers hat. Hence, this blogs title.
I’ll vent and freak out, I’ll be joyful at progress and not so thrilled when progress halts or takes an unexpected turn. But mostly this is my outlet and I hope by getting the swirling thoughts and emotions down on ‘paper’ it will ease some of my angst.
I may even cuss.
Until next time…
I won’t tell you what each of those letters stand for but that’s what ran through my mind after talking to the surgeon on 9/20/08 who discovered that the nodules on the outside of my husbands lung are indeed cancerous. The stage 3 kidney cancer he was diagnosed with 3 years ago has returned by metastasizing to another area in his body. The first diagnosis was a tumor that was embedded in his right kidney and they had to remove the kidney at the same time they removed the tumor because the tumor was so large and to ensure they got everything cancerous out. He had various body scans and follow up visits for about 1 1/2 years after the surgery and nothing else showed up. So we thought it was done.
It’s not.
Now he’s wearing the cancer patient hat again - correction - the person with cancer hat and I’m wearing the caregivers hat. Hence, this blogs title.
I’ll vent and freak out, I’ll be joyful at progress and not so thrilled when progress halts or takes an unexpected turn. But mostly this is my outlet and I hope by getting the swirling thoughts and emotions down on ‘paper’ it will ease some of my angst.
I may even cuss.
Until next time…