Trying to Gracefully Go Thru Life
Another health issue to face
posted Wednesday, 4 June 2008
Here's an email that MIL sent to the Hubs yesterday:
Daughter already knows but Aunt C has breast cancer, it was confirmed today.
Please pray really hard for she and Grandpa as they were referred to the oncologist for surgery and radiation and chemotherapy I think.
Here's an update that the Hubs received at lunch today:
She saw the oncologist (female doctor) and the doctor believes it’s a Stage II Insitu carcinoma which is confined to the nodules/lobes where it started. The surgeon (male doctor) is the same one who did the biopsy. The doctor advised that after the surgery they will do a review and decide the next step, probably chemotherapy (hair loss) but the news is encouraging for now.
So the Hubs aunt has cancer and will have surgery scheduled ASAP to remove the effected nodes. Thankfully, the cancer hasn't spread beyond the nodes so the surgery should be able to take care of a lot. Then the chemo will get anything else.
This is one of the Hub's aunts that I adore. She's the one that takes care of the Hub's grandpa. She also took care of his grandma before she passed two years ago. Now she's sick. Makes me sad.
What do you think????