Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

Snow Day

I live in CT and we are supposed to get lots of snow today (oh, how I hate that stuff). I am working from home today so I don't have to travel the 25 miles to work and then again 25 miles home.

I have some good news - Bob and I went to the Onocologist on Wednesday and we were told that they had removed all the cancer except one on a lymph node. They said that they cannot even put a cancer stage on what is left because it is so small. So, no chemo or anything else. Bob does have to have a CT Scan and a PET Scan so they will have a baseline. He will need to have that done every 6 months. I just hope they are right. The Dr. said that something else will kill Bob before the cancer! I am going to wait until the scans are done to actually feel the worst is over.

Today is our wedding anniversary - 16 years!

Thank God its Friday!

Its been a very long week! Nothing really going on but I am just so tired! Tired of worrying about Bob - he woke up early this morning (3am) with pain going down his left arm.....I thought heart attack but he kept saying "no" so of course we were awake the rest of the night - at 6:15am he said the pain had gone away (not sure I believe him) but I had to leave to go to work! I feel like such a loser - I should be home with him, I am worried with everything going on with him. I hope he is OK.
It has been a horrible year for me and I sure hope 2009 treats us better!

To hell with Cancer!

Nothing to say today except:

F # @ K

CANCER!!!!!

The "C" Word

The "C" Word SUCKS - my husband has a 12 inch incision on his belly and had 12 inches of small intestine removed last week - he had a blockage - the blockage was Carcinoid Cancer! They were able to remove all of it from the intestine but he has a mass on his lymph node which they were unable to remove because it is to close to an artery! Now we have to wait for the Oncology Dept at VA to call us for an appt to decide on what happens next. From everything I have read on the Internet - this type of cancer is very slow growing with a life expectancy of 5 - 20 years. The problem is that Bob has had this blockage going on for the past 3 years. I had told him to go to the Dr. everytime he had an attack but he wouldn't! I don't want anything to happen to him - I am scared and I want my Mom (she would know what to do) but since she passed away just about 1 year ago I am alone! I am so sad!

Say a Prayer

I am really not good about blogging - I don't understand how folks manage to blog everyday - I just can't find the time. My husband was taken to the VA Hospital Monday night for extreme pain in his stomach - he has been suffering for the past two weeks but refused to go until Monday. They put him in a room in the ER at 8PM and finally at 4AM they told me they were admitting him - I was so tired (I had hurt my shoulder last weekend and Monday my Dr gave me some pain med's and I had taken one just before Bob said he needed to go to the hospital) I finally left at 4:30 AM and of course I got lost for almost an hr before I found the Highway (geeze things look different in the dark)!

Bob has a blockage in his small bowels (the intestine is twisted) - they also found he has 3 small growths in there so I am praying they are nothing - he has been on Morphine since being admitted and he will have surgery Thursday.....I am praying everything will be OK.