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Six months ago, my wife of 48 years was diagnosed with terminal liver cancer and was given six months to a year to live. She lost 35 pounds, couldn't keep food down, and became critically week. We pursued several different doctors and three major cancer hospitals who all came to the same negative conclusion. Mayo Clinic for one, after not even looking at her records, questioned even why we were there and why we were taking up their valuable time.
During this period the only way I was able to maintain some degree of sanity was to lose myself for a few minutes to an hour daily on shockernet. Shockernet allowed me a short remise to take my mind off of her illness and simply watching her waste away without my being able to do anything about it.
But, in March, she started slowly to regain some strength and put on some weight, a sign that her weekly directed cancer treatment was doing some good.
Then we visited MD Anderson, in Houston, where they conducted 13 hours of testing over a two day period. Her Oncologist there then reviewed her test results and later called us to explain that he had presented her case to a panel of other oncologists and surgeons. And they all agreed that her tumor COULD be successfully operated on and completely removed. We are now scheduled to return to MD Anderson in mid-May to meet with the Head of the Surgical Department who is going to do the operation. She still has a very difficult operation ahead of her and a long recovery period. But we now have hope for a complete recovery. And tomorrow we are heading to Paris for a week to celebrate this tremendous good news.
My only reason for providing you the above information is simply to pass on to you "youngsters" to never give up and never lose hope, no matter how bad the situation looks.
And further to thank each and every one of you for your brilliant, witty, sarcastic, hilarious, stupid, ridiculous, comical, cutting, optimistic and pessimistic comments, on basketball, which kept me going.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart!
During this period the only way I was able to maintain some degree of sanity was to lose myself for a few minutes to an hour daily on shockernet. Shockernet allowed me a short remise to take my mind off of her illness and simply watching her waste away without my being able to do anything about it.
But, in March, she started slowly to regain some strength and put on some weight, a sign that her weekly directed cancer treatment was doing some good.
Then we visited MD Anderson, in Houston, where they conducted 13 hours of testing over a two day period. Her Oncologist there then reviewed her test results and later called us to explain that he had presented her case to a panel of other oncologists and surgeons. And they all agreed that her tumor COULD be successfully operated on and completely removed. We are now scheduled to return to MD Anderson in mid-May to meet with the Head of the Surgical Department who is going to do the operation. She still has a very difficult operation ahead of her and a long recovery period. But we now have hope for a complete recovery. And tomorrow we are heading to Paris for a week to celebrate this tremendous good news.
My only reason for providing you the above information is simply to pass on to you "youngsters" to never give up and never lose hope, no matter how bad the situation looks.
And further to thank each and every one of you for your brilliant, witty, sarcastic, hilarious, stupid, ridiculous, comical, cutting, optimistic and pessimistic comments, on basketball, which kept me going.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart!
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