Sorry to be absent again and I don't wish to imply that I'm ignoring your thought provoking assistance.
... but for now I have to put any thoughts my M with CAW aside for the moment and just let fate run its course for the time being. As I had mentioned FIL has cancer. Last week he had his first dose of chemotherapy. It nearly did him in. The blood transfusions they gave him didn't take and it became so bad that when calls were made, it was feared that those traveling from as far as Florida would not arrive in time to say their goodbyes. To everyone's delight, he had made it through the night and steadily has been regaining his vitals. Throughout the days spent at the hospital, we slowly discovered CAW's parents had been withholding much about her father's ailment. The cancer was much more advanced than we were led to believe. A "mass" in the liver we were told of, turned out to be a very diseased bile duct and it has spread into the lymph nodes. The doctor's recommendation of the chemo doses were meant to be only a hopeful deterrent to the spread of the cancer in order to buy him a little more time. It didn't work and if anything made him even weaker.
So now its basically a waiting game, for lack of a better phrase. A week or two ... or ... a month or two, no one is willing to say, but is what is on everyone's mind.
So for now, my life's problems seem very insignificant in comparison, so I'm casting them aside now. Not even room in my head to contemplate your wonderful responses at this time, Betsey and Holdingon . Altho I want to mention to Holdingon that while reading your post it did strike me like poetry and Betsey ... when the time comes for me to come back to my issues, I will return to your post and reread it with the upmost concentration.
PnB and Shiny, thanks for your continued support. Miss chatting with you gals alot. Will try to make it up soon.
Raindeer I'm with you all the way with what you said.
I will state for the record, that I recognize this as one of those life experiences I had mentioned about that has the ability to trigger a re-evaluation of one's current belief system and I think I'm seeing some of that happening to CAW in the last few days. We'll see.
Sorry to say, it may be a while longer before spending any amount of time chatting with you folks. Altho I do miss having you folks sit on my shoulder and whispering in my ear, if you know what I mean.
Well, I'll try to catch up as much as I can tonite ...
