This one is going to be rough...

Tumor from the uterus to the bladder to the abdomen wall. Basically a softball. Earliest appointment for a specialist is Tues at 8:30 so we are leaving here at 6am to make it. Meantime they are sending out meds from 90 min away that will be here at 9 tonight. Nurse will be here at 8am tomorrow.

Docs didnt even have the balls to tell her how bad it is themselves, they left that up to me.

And if they had done what they were SUPPOSED to last spring, none of this would be happening. It would have been a minor thing.

We are going to be spending a lot of time on the road this winter. 90 min each way to the hospital.

I know from past experience this kind of response means they are worried sheetless.

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Last Tuesdays appointment got put back to today due to the snowstorm. We left here at 8 this morning and back around 5 and both headed straight for a nap.

Tumor is soft-ball size, goes from the uterus to the bladder to the abdoman wall and is now getting close to the spine as todays scan showed. She starts chemo next week to shrink it, then surgery, then possible radiation and more chemo if they cant remove all of it with the operation. Either way it looks like we are starting to look for a mobility-friendly place.

All-in-all....a total ****- up.

The one bright part is they are going to do the chemo here under direction from the cancer clinic, which takes distance from 90 to 30 minutes. HUGE difference for both of us. Those highway drives are hard on me after all the years, but just grueling for her to sit there listening to Mr. Road Rage telling the other drivers what he thinks of their parents breeding habits.

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One thing I have learned in life with these kinds of things guys..

Keep your sense of humor. Ramp up the dry sarcasm. Watch Monty Python.

So long as you can do that you can get back up from anything with a little help. You might even be useful to somebody else.

If you loose that humor, you'll end up one of those who doesnt get back up again.

Weed is legal here and doc wrote her a scitp for some, so on the way home I stopped and blew 50 on a pipe and a bag of what the guy at the store said was decent for pain and anxiety. I dunno, I hate the smell of the stuff even but if it helps her......

(yes, welcome to Ontario...the government is the local dope dealer at 3 times street prices )

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