Tuesday, December 06, 2005
One year ago she lay in a hospital bed. Her right femur had been put back together with a titanium rod. It was the same procedure used on senior patients whose hip had broken due to calcium loss. Her femur had given up its calcium as food to the hungry melanoma tumor. We had no idea, then, if she'd be home for Christmas. I spent hours and hours there with her.
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My mother had to have three vertabrae in her neck removed and a titanium rod inserted. They tried to remove as much as the tumor as they could, but in the end the radiation just made it spread faster to her brain. It was less than four months from her diagnosis to her death. Just like Peter Jennings.
Hope you are doing well...
-Ellen aka Queen of Sky
Ellen, I'm so sorry. I lost my mom to cancer as well so I know what it's like to lose a mother. Personally I think radiation's a barbaric way to treat this disease and the medical community is slowly coming around to that conclusion, but too late for too many.
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