Last Friday I learned that one of my two remaining aunts has cancer. It’s in her liver and stomach, so I’m assuming it will spread even more.
Goddam, fuck, shit! I shouldn’t be cussing like that but it’s like drugs, it makes me feel better for a little while.
Cancer, you are the nastiest, filthiest, fuck shittingest, sneakiest disease. Just when some folks thing they have you beat, you show up again.
My aunt is the older sister of my mother. At 86 I don’t know how aggressive a treatment regimen she can handle. I love her a lot, nobody deserves this shitty ailment, especially not her. She’s been a widow for almost forty years, and guess what my uncle died of? Yep, cancer!:mad:
I’ll put her name on the prayer list at my church( and God, sorry for the swearing!) and pray that whatever happens now she can at least avoid as much pain as possible.
My dad turned 89 last week and is recovering nicely from his brain cancer but can’t do much these days because he tires easily. Now he also has unrelated skin cancers, I think one predates the brain cancer. I’m guessing he had been spending too much time in the hot Texas sun.
Dad has my middle brother in his house to look after him. Was my eldest sister, primarily while Mom was alive, until they switched places. Dad’s house is a block from another sister and her husband, who also check in on him and help keep him fed. Middle bro had been living above their garage, now eldest sis is. They’ve been trying to get Dad to move in but he isn’t yet ready to give up his house.
Sis and her husband will be 60 next year and have been looking at buying retirement property; turns out the area they’ve been looking in is within a day’s drive of us. Would be nice if they can convince Dad to go along.
Cancer is a bastard alright. I’ve lost three Uncles in the last 5 years to the fucker. Their sister, my mother was diagnosed with bowel cancer ~ 2 years ago. The news nearly killed me.
Thanks be to everything my Ma was lucky. After an op and a lot of recovery she is doing fine and is clear to this day.
Very sorry to hear this Baker. My aunt has survived several bouts of serious cancer (really surprised everyone but herself I think), and my dad has had a couple run ins with skin cancer. I’m sure I will too.
If you look at the rates at which cancer strikes the population, it is certainly high enough to believe that someone you know or yourself will get it. It’s just a matter of the odds.
With that said there has been no better time than now to fall ill (with the advance in medicine), and I hope the best for her speedy recovery.
My mother spent two years dying of liver cancer. It sucks indeed. The dysfunctional liver turned her skin yellow and her eyes from brown to grey. She was always so physical, her favorite things to do were ballroom dancing and gardening, and once she got sick she never did them again. And she always took such good care of her health, she was a P.E. professor, she didn’t smoke, drank moderately, watched what she ate. It’s like vegetarian Linda McCartney dying of breast cancer, you never know.
Lost both parents to cancer, my dad a few months ago at 70, and mom 20 years ago at 49. Also a grandparent and an uncle. A few weeks after dad died, I learned that two close friends have prostate cancer. One is responding well to treatment, the other isn’t.
It’s a word that has haunted me all of my life and I sympathize with the pain and frustration of everyone that has posted.
It’s horrible. I’m very sorry for her suffering and yours, Baker, and if her time is running out I hope you’re able to make the most of it and tell her all the things you want to tell her.
Baker, you have my sympathy. My Mom is have lung cancer surgery on Tuesday. Stay strong and be positive for her sake, at least outwardly. Cancer really does suck.
I’m so sorry, Baker. My favorite uncle died of cancer last year, after about, oh, 10 years maybe of struggling with it. He was only 59 years old. 59. Then a cousin of mine had to have a double masectomy a few years ago.
