Saturday, January 8, 2011

It Makes Me Sad and It Makes Me Worry

     As previously noted, my friend K-A has stage III cancer and, not having health insurance, hasn't yet had the surgery to remove her tumors.  This should have been done before Memorial Day, yet the Dr's are letting it grow.  I sing it to the tune of 'edelweiss' : Tumors move, and grow, move and grow for ever....
     I was over there yesterday and witnessed the effects of her tumors on her spinal cord - shaky, wobbly, every step a potential fall.  Then she sort of nodded off and came to a few seconds later.  I think it may have been a petit mal seizure but I'm no Dr so I can't say for certain.
     I think that the very next time I witness something like that, I'm going to call an ambulance for her.  She's stubborn and I will have to enlist the aid of both of her sons to let the paramedics take her, but she needs to go.  Enough is enough.  I can't watch her die a slow and painful death and do NOTHING about it.  I just can't.

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  1. We're still offering prayers for her and her family.

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  2. Thank you Bibbie. She needs every prayer she can get. If she is killed from this disease then the custody of her children will most likely be handed to their father. If that happens I will never see them again, and they will never again be able to see their grandfather again. So much is riding on her recovery besides just her life that I could do a whole blog post on the subject.

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