Most of you old timers on this site know my mother in-law has been in a losing battle with cancer in her neck......she spent 8 weeks at MD Anderson in Houston......they did a full larenjectomy and removed her voice box and much tissue in her neck.......she recovered from that only to find they did not get all of it.....so she elected not to have surgery again since this time she would not be able to hold her head up without a brace and would be on a feeding tube for the rest of her life...........................this was 7 months ago..........the tumor is now the size of softball on the side of her neck........it grows 1.0cm each week......................................it is very painful and she has to take many pain meds to cope with the pain each day.....................my wife has been sleeping over at her house each night......we have day nurses during the day................last week her mom had some congestion and coughed really hard and the tumor broke open and painted the bathroom red.................my wife soaked two large bath towels with blood before it stopped......this we are told will most likely be the way she will die....bleeding to death................................I would have been sick......but my wife was a trooper and stooped the bleeding and cleaned up the mess.............She is a DNR and is on hospice....thank god for those people.
I can't say enough about my wife and her strength during this really tough time.......she is very special to me........here is a picture of Gigi (her mom) and a friend before her first surgery.
I can't say enough about my wife and her strength during this really tough time.......she is very special to me........here is a picture of Gigi (her mom) and a friend before her first surgery.
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