A long , crap-assed week seems like rainbows and lollipops next to the news a friend just recently got and shared with her friends today on the Book of Faces.
My friend Shelly got some devastating test results after having to delay her latest chemo rounds due to an infection and low cell counts. Her status today leaves me at a loss for words:
~The news from Shands really sucked. It wasnt what I had hoped for. I have had the opportunity to let my family know and now I am letting my friends know…. Their is no cure for what I have. There is one good size tumor and alot of littlle tumors through out both of my lungs. Needless to say it’s like killing weeds… you can kill them and they just come right back. there is still 20 different kinds of drugs that they can try, but in the end it will just be left up too God. I just hope that with all my prayers and the prayers of my loved ones he will see fit to keep me around. Im still going to fight. That is what I do best! I will fight will all I have in me. Just know that I love all of you and I want to thanki all of you for being there for me and my famlly, it reallly means alot to me and too them. God Bless All of you!!!!!~
Please send her all the prayers, positive vibes, good thoughts, and well wishes you can. As I have mentioned before, she still struggles with the cost of her treatment, and while we now know that the chemo is not going to work, she still needs help with whatever medical options she pursues in order to remain comfortable in whatever time she has left. If you can spare a few dollars, please go to http://www.gofundme.com/3aslo and make a donation.
And hug the people you love EVERY chance you get.
My thoughts are with your friend as I recently was diagnosed w/bladder cancer so I know how she feels, but not completely, as my cancer still has a chance of being cured as it’s localized in one place.
I start my treatments in a month as they removed all the tumors they could find two weeks ago. I have no idea yet what all this will cost me, but it won’t be cheap..the insurance companies and Big Pharma see to that, don’t they?
So I will keep Shelley in my thoughts when I think about my own battle now. Thanks for the heads up on her Denise.
I love you, Dusty, and you are definitely in my thoughts as well. I’ve been so busy wallowing in my own minor woes that I have temporarily forgotten that people I know are dealing with some really heavy shit, and I should be thanking my lucky stars that a family with the flu is the biggest problem I face right now.
Hugs, sista-woman, and my fondest thoughts. If I can do anything at all, don’t hesitate to ask.
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Very sorry to hear this news; will keep your friend and her loved ones in our thoughts and prayers.
Thanks, JD , it is much appreciated.
SO glad you’re blogging again
Prayers for Shelley.
♥, Spinny.
Best thoughts and wishes to all friends going through such challenging health issues. I wish I knew something else useful to say, other than: I care and I’m pulling for you.
This has me totally tongue-tied…………..anything other than “I love you” and “I’m praying for you” seems so completely ineffectual.
What the hell do you say to someone who just got a death sentence.
I’m flummoxed, and I just want to hug the shit out of her and her family. She has a grandbaby on the way, and I hope she lives to see her.