Hubby has a PET scan tomorrow to see how treatment is going. Symptoms suggest the cancer is fighting back, and since he's tolerating things so "well" they may go for the more aggressive treatment they wanted to do but were afraid to because of his heart. As his cardiologist said, "Hm, fight the cancer now or increase the chances of causing a heart problem I can deal with easily. Get the tougher treatment."
But Hubby is anxious tonight. He copes by investigating what mantle cell lymphoma does, so he's deep in survival rates and odds of it being beaten back and likelihoods of it coming back and how untreatable it will be if it does return. So he's talking about life insurance--a little late in the game to get anything we can afford, I imagine--and he's apologizing for putting me through this and all that.
Not my coping method. I was happily in a state of "he's coping with the treatments well, the doctors are cautiously optimistic, we can do this." I feel like a coward in denial, but I need to be on a little more blindly optimistic train for a while.
Turns out nearly all patients with mantle cell lymphoma have two misplaced chromosomes. He's going to tell his siblings and his daughter to consider getting the blood test to check this. He has a son out there somewhere who I hope doesn't get a genetic surprise one day.
Laura, a guy went on Facebook to recruit people to assassinate Obama LINK and this.
I hope the PET scan produces more promising results than expected, Connie.
Connie,
good wishes for a good PET scan and treatment that your hubby can tolerate okay.
Lots of ~ma for your hubby and you, Connie.
Much ~ma to your husband, Connie. I hope his results are good.
Connie, tons of pet scan ~ ma for your DH.
Much ~ma for each and hubby, Connie. I would stay on the blindly optimistic train myself, but he has to do what he has to do too. Understandable in both instances.
Laura, a guy went on Facebook to recruit people to assassinate Obama
Yes, I really think the crazy hatred is way off the scale for Obama than it was for Bush. Unfortunately I do think that part of it is racist, but I know people I would otherwise not consider racist that hate him with a passion too.
The farther we get from TV "equal time" law, the more the crazy rhetoric gets. The fact that Fox News can keep spinning and spinning and spinning the same garbage all day, day after day, ramps up people's anxiety on an issue. So, if you are one of those viewers with Fox channel on all day, yeah, you will freak out, because all day, you are hearing the spin doctors say the same thing. How Obama is killing America. How ACA is the first step to communism. How the administration is soft on immigration. Etc. Etc. And just enough of it is based on facts, that it's quite easy to believe it all. Propaganda. It's a bitch, yo!
