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Smitty500mag · October 14, 2021 22:43

Just had a few minutes to try to catch up and see what's going on here on the forum.

Only difference here is it just keeps getting worse. I'm still taking care of Miss June as she continues to battle this stage 4 lung and bone cancer. She has already lived longer that they predicted when it was discovered September before last. It's been a year ago this month that she came home from her spine surgery and the 2 strokes she had during surgery. She has been back in the hospital 8 times since then for an average stay of 4 days each time for complications from internal bleeding due to the blood thinner and a fall she had back last December. The only time she gets up out of bed now is to go to the bathroom and I have to put a bearhug around her waist to get her in the bathroom to keep her from falling and when her legs give out like they have on 2 occasions it's so sudden that's it's all I can do to keep her from hitting the floor. She has a port-a-pottie but she hates that thing so we'll keep going to the regular bathroom until she can't.

This week we're battling an eye infection of some sort. Took her to the doctor yesterday and they gave her some type of antibiotic eyedrops. Hopefully this will clear it up but it don't look good. She had to cancel 2 MRI's this morning on her neck due to chemo sickness and the eye infection. This chemo medicine is a killer and the throwing up goes on and on. She's thought about throwing the towel in so many times this past year and just going into hospice and dying. The pain was so bad one night last week that she pleaded with me to get her gun. All I can do is keep giving her more pain medicine and hold her and pray for her and keep encouraging her to hang on.

If anyone deserves a miracle it's her. She's been a great mother to our children and she's never had an enemy that I'm aware of. She was raised in the country in the backwoods of East Tennessee but she's not out of place in the fanciest places in the world. She whipped me into shape and that was no easy task. She's very intelligent and can do just about anything including working on cars or doing carpenter work around the house. She was one of if not the first female service managers for a large Ford Dealership in the South. She was able manage a whole service department of men which wasn't easy for a woman back in those days.

But this cancer is kicking both of our rear-ends. You can't explain to anyone what it's like. It kills your body and the chemo kills what's left of it. I'm managing to keep her weight up by giving her these shake type drinks made by Ensure with all kinds of vitamins in them including iron and many other minerals etc. Her favorite is Ensure Clear Mixed Berry. I order then on line by the case. Her blood test that she takes every month at the doctors office show results that are better than most healthy people including mine. Every result on the test is in the normal range. If it wasn't for the cancer she would be one of the most healthy women that's in her 70s any where around. It's a shame that anyone would ever have go through this dreaded disease.

Well that's what's going in our lives and it don't change much day to day except to get worse at times.

One other thing, I mentioned it before but it's worth repeating. Insurance...buy the best policy that they offer. It's expensive but nothing like it will be if you have something terrible to happen like we have. I figured having a policy that just left me owing 20% of the bill was going to be enough. When your hospital and doctor bills go over the two and a half million dollar mark like ours have this past year that leaves a big chuck of change to pay out. It's wiped our retirement out. We're down to making arrangements with the hospital to make payments and every time she goes back to the hospital it's at least another $100,000 bucks that I owe 20% on.

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