Sounds like your wife is fighter. Hopefully, she can beat this too. Glad they found it. Hope they found it soon enough. Esophageal cancer is a tough one. Just nearly escaped it myself a few years back. I truly hope surgery and/or chemo help her beat this. From what you shared she and you with her have already endured a lot. My thoughts are with you both.
She doesn't tell me details, but she's proud and a fighter (as several husbands will attest), and seems to be doing fine. The nurse at Fred Hutchinson says she's the trophy they talk about. She claims it's because she hits the gym treadmill every couple of days. Instead of repping so many posts in this thread, I'll just say that I wish you all well. As you get old, your relatives and former friends drop like flies. The worst is when the ones younger than you go. I learned of a cousin more than 15 years younger than me. Now my other cousin's daughter, a full generation younger than me. When you're young, you think, that's sad. When you're old, it's, I'm overdue!
Fuck cancer. Just had a friend's sister pass away way too young after her battle. I didn't know her well but I do remember vividly one summer 24 hour Relay for Life that I spent with their family. Heartbreaking
Wow, this is a rough but really meaningful thread. My first experience with cancer was my best friend's Mom battling pancreatic for 6 years before it took her from us. She was an amazing person. Another of my good friends got Hodgkins the year after we graduated from highschool and he's been cancer free now for over 25 years. It took my grandma from us and although she was 70 it was still just way too soon. She was still walking 18 holes a couple times a week and going out dancing once or twice a month... seemed to be the model of health. That Christmas we were all together and she was coughing a lot but just thought it was a dry throat. She went to her doctor a couple of weeks later, he referred her to an oncologist who told her she had esophageal cancer and only had weeks or a couple of months. She was in the hospital the following week, in a coma a few days after that and then she was gone within the next week. Fuck Cancer! It can torture for years which is merciless but it can also take so quickly which is unbearable in it's own way. I'm so sorry for those of you who are fighting it right now but I'm pulling for you and just hoping for whatever outcome gives you the most of what you want and need.
I lost my dad to pancreatic cancer on 12/6. It was the worst. I cared for him his last week and am grateful I could be there for him. we just had his celebration of life this Sunday. It was beautiful and sad all at the same time. RIP Sedatedfork Sr.
