terrshee's Diaryland Diary
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Bad Mom News
I can't sleep. I talked to my sister last night, and it seems my mother fibbed when telling me the latest news about her cancer treatment. The tumor isn't near her spine, it has reached her spine. As in the danger is now in the cancer invading her brain. Further radiation treatment may slow it, but since that didn't work in the first place, there's little hope of that. The doctors have to go back and reexamine everything before they can give us a prognosis. Preliminarily, she's got perhaps two years and potentially faces significant pain, paralysis, blindness and/or dementia.
In a grim way it is ok. She won't have to face lying in a nursing home for 10 years like her sister, or lingering for years with Alzheimers like her brother. That has been her biggest fear in recent years. We'll have plenty of opportunity to say goodbye and make sure all is right and seemly. It is going to be hard, however, perhaps not so hard as the unexpected. It'll be alright. Rockabye, rockabye. In the mean time, one day at a time.
2:53 a.m. - 2005-09-05
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past tense - always tense - future tense
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