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My Wife is in the hospital in the worst way...
Smitty500mag
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June, my wife, recently had left shoulder replacement but that wasn't the source of her pain. I took her to the emergency room in Fayetteville, GA on Monday due to the pain in her neck and shoulders getting worse everyday. After doing MRI's, CAT scans and a biopsy they've determined she has upper spine cancer and lung cancer and now have moved her to a hospital in Atlanta. She's always been in good health and now we're hit with this news and it was the most shocking thing we've ever experienced.
To make matters worse I can't be with her because of the virus. I'm having to sit at home and talk to her and the doctors by phone. When she calls crying over the pain it's about more than I can handle. Knowing she lying there suffering and there's nothing I can do about it is the worse thing I've ever had to deal with. I was able to stay with her in the hospital room from 9:00 AM until 6:00 PM at the hospital in Fayetteville for 3 days but since they moved her to Atlanta yesterday I can't visit her at all.
She is supposed to have surgery on her neck this Sunday morning. The doctor said this surgery will take 8 or 9 hours. Her C 2 vertebrae is deteriorated and putting pressure on the spine and it appears there's a tumor in the C3 vertebrae that's destroying it also. The doctor is concerned about having good bones to attached the rods and screws to in order to support the neck to get the pressure off of her spine which is causing the pain. I asked him about not having the surgery and doing the radiation treatment first and then doing the surgery and he said the radiation treatment will damage the tissue to where they couldn't do the surgery. He said she'll have to wait about 4 weeks before the radiation and chemo treatments can be started after the surgery.
I've talked to 3 or 4 different doctors today. It looks like it's going to be a long ordeal to recovery but they said her being in such good health otherwise that she has a good chance of making a recovery.
June and I have been together since we were just kids, she's 69 and I'm 71. If she goes I don't think I'll be able to continue without her.
If anyone feels like saying a prayer for her it will be appreciated.
To make matters worse I can't be with her because of the virus. I'm having to sit at home and talk to her and the doctors by phone. When she calls crying over the pain it's about more than I can handle. Knowing she lying there suffering and there's nothing I can do about it is the worse thing I've ever had to deal with. I was able to stay with her in the hospital room from 9:00 AM until 6:00 PM at the hospital in Fayetteville for 3 days but since they moved her to Atlanta yesterday I can't visit her at all.
She is supposed to have surgery on her neck this Sunday morning. The doctor said this surgery will take 8 or 9 hours. Her C 2 vertebrae is deteriorated and putting pressure on the spine and it appears there's a tumor in the C3 vertebrae that's destroying it also. The doctor is concerned about having good bones to attached the rods and screws to in order to support the neck to get the pressure off of her spine which is causing the pain. I asked him about not having the surgery and doing the radiation treatment first and then doing the surgery and he said the radiation treatment will damage the tissue to where they couldn't do the surgery. He said she'll have to wait about 4 weeks before the radiation and chemo treatments can be started after the surgery.
I've talked to 3 or 4 different doctors today. It looks like it's going to be a long ordeal to recovery but they said her being in such good health otherwise that she has a good chance of making a recovery.
June and I have been together since we were just kids, she's 69 and I'm 71. If she goes I don't think I'll be able to continue without her.
If anyone feels like saying a prayer for her it will be appreciated.
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Prayers for your family my friend.
It is amazing what todays surgeons are capable of.
Prayers asked for the both of you.
If you can't feel the music; it's only pink noise!
Prayers from North Carolina . Will keep them coming
I'm sitting here alone in Georgia with family scattered from one coast to the other including my elderly Mom who is 89 living in Knoxville. She is still very sharp and is taking all of this very hard. Our 2 sons, one lives north of Seattle with his wife, and the oldest one lives in Knoxville with his family and they don't know what to do and my sister is taking this as hard as the rest of us. Nobody knows what to do? I told them there's no need for them to come here since I can't even see June and they have families to take care of so they can't just drop everything to come and sit with me. It's a nightmare!
Thanks again for the prayers. Lord knows I've kept his line busy this week.
Praying to Jesus Christ our savior for both of you.
Prayers for you and June. May the Lord watch over you, be with the physicians and be their hands, hearts and minds .
4 years ago a surgeon at Piedmont saved my life when he had to remove a foot of my large intestine due to a blood clot that caused gangrene to set in. Other doctors I've seen since then said it had to be a miracle that I lived because of the gangrene.
This sure is a helpless feeling. I feel like I at least need to be sitting out in the parking lot of the hospital if nothing else but I know that's stupid because it won't accomplish anything but I feel like I'm uncaring just sitting here doing nothing. What would you guys do?
Smitty - that has to be very difficult on both of you not to be able to hold her hand and offer that comfort of closeness.
Prayers from Michigan. My best to June.
We will be adding the two of you to our church’s prayer list tomorrow morning. . Wish I could do more .