Matt’s dad? Tony Montana’s uncle? Darth’s mom? And others?
My mom is going to physical therapy for her herniated disc, which is pressing against her sciatic nerve. I try to be upbeat to her, but I really don’t know if she’ll ever be pain-free. She still manages to socialize and do her volunteer work.
My dad starts his radiation treatments this Wednesday. Fingers crossed.
My uncle passed on Thursday morning, last week while still in the ICU in Ankara, Turkey. Mom got there a couple of days before he died, and will be back tonight.
My husband’s nana still ain’t dead.
However, she did bring all of her cemetary plot papers to our Mother’s Day dinner, so she could once again tell me how she bought those plots when she was in her 20s, and how we should not forget that this is where she is to be buried.
I think my granddad is gonna die this week. He stopped eating last week, and the hospice said they weren’t going to push fluids or anything.
He’s had Parkinson’s for about 20 years now.
My paternal grandmother has been dying for 20 years, thank you very much. Other than that, no changes in anyone’s health.
I don’t know how many people know about it here, but my mom was diagnosed with liver cancer last year.
She’s doing relatively fine, and is even able to play in her Tuesday golf league, but she will have to have chemotherapy three times a month for the unforeseeable future.
My dad completed his radiation treatments for throat cancer back in January. They did find another spot on his larynx, but are watching it for the moment - ENT doc one month, oncologist the other months.
He’s still not smoking (went cold-turkey in November before he started the radiation) and is generally doing good.
My dad is getting a few functions back after having the drain installed. He’s eating some, sitting up some, talking a little bit. We’ll have the shunt (permanent self-contained drain) installed tomorrow, and see how that goes.
My Gram had her kidney out. She’s doing well, going out for fish or to her sister’s house, and she’s back at church. I am worried that she may be a bit depressed because she cannot be as active as she is accustomed to being. I know my mom, who is caring for her, is depressed.
Well, my Dad has recovered completely from the stroke that he had in his brain stem two years ago, and my grandfather (Dad’s Dad) is getting better every week from the stroke that he had a month or two after. My other Grandpa (Mom’s Dad) has cancer and is on chemo, but he is doing well. Unfortunately, Both my Grandmas passed away this year, with in two months of each other.
Everybody else is doing well though, so I am thankful.
My Dad’s prostate cancer is in complete remission (radiation therapy). Still has to watch his ulcer, though.
My sister’s siezures are gone. Doctor never did figure those out. Been close to a year now. Theyt started about 4 yrs ago, even two periods of coma (a couple of days each). Believe me, they did did all sorts of tests and studies. I always wondered if they were drug related, since she’s a former addict, but the Docs never said for sure. She’s clean and sober, btw…
Doc told me my knee needs surgery, but I can wait on it. PT has helped a bunch, let me tell ya. He did tell me (suggested) never to ski again, regardless. Bummer
I buried my mom this morning.
Sorry to hear that, lite.
Our thoughts are with you.
lite, my condolences.
I don’t think I ever mentioned it on the SDMB, but my cousin was diagnosed with testicular cancer last year. After having a testicle removed and lots of chemotherapy, he is now 100% cancer free. He was 25 years old at the time of diagnosis.
lite
My thoughts are with you. You have my deepest sympathies.
I’m sorry, lite, for your loss.
My great-aunt on my dad’s side died on April 30th after a year in a nursing home - she’d been unwell for quite some time - osteoporosis & whatnot - then began to lose her marbles maybe a year ago, possibly due to a stroke or a series of small strokes.
A good friend of mine who’s almost like family had one of his kidneys, which was only functioning at 12%, removed very recently. I saw him briefly online and he commented that they’d “f**cked up”, but I haven’t heard from him as to what exactly that means. Hopefully it’s nothing horrible.
We’re continually amazed each day that my grandfather extends his life. He’s had lupis for 15 or 20 years. He was recently diagnosed with colon cancer. He was a carpenter who could still carry his weight into his 60s. But the last few years has seen him waste away to a shell. He gets up to eat and still tries to work in his garden. But most days he can’t make it out of the house.
It’s difficult to see him this way. Through it all, though, I’ve never heard him complain or bemoan his fate. He’s treated this decline with the same matter-of-factness he shows when he talks about his time as a POW in WWII or how he needs to get the oil changed in his pickup.
My mom’s in the hospital. Seems last year’s uterine cancer and radiation are not behind us after all. She’s lost 20% of her body weight in 3 months…we knew she was thinner, but it isn’t obvious when you see each other often. She’s eating almost nothing. Still doing tests to determine stage and spread. Liver biopsy is happening as I type.
Last Friday she threw some PE’s, then on Saturday she got an IVC filter to block the leg clots from reaching the lungs. That went OK. Now we’re in holding pattern until the tests all come back.
I spent all of Mother’s Day and most of today in the hospital. Mom’s pretty demoralized.
People are asking how she is, and I am answering “still alive.”
My dad’s doing better after a seris of strokes earlier in the year. He’s back home now but his mobility’s very limited, he has a health visitor coming every morning to bathe and dress him, plus is restricted to a wheelchair outsid of the house. He manages okay with a walker indoors and they’ve had a stairlift fitted. He visits a phsyotherapist twice a week; his left side is still very weak and he’s beginning to develop a tremor in his left hand. His speech remains fairly slurred but he’s working on it.
It’s tough on my mother as my father used to be very active and verbal, so he gets frustrated and angry much of the time. I don’t visit nearly as often as I should but my hearing’s not great and it annoys him if I ask him to repeat himself. Still, he spends a lot of time on the computer, and now in the garden enjoying the sun now the weather’s improving, so I can’t say his quality of life is at all bad. Both of them are adjusting slowly and realise it’s going to take time.