This is turning into The Un-Blog. I started it with enthusiasm and energy, and life has seemingly gotten in the way. Tomorrow is October.
October! Just a few weeks ago I was writing out my List of Things to Do for the summer. I turned around, and we're already well into fall.
It's been a bumpy year. Several friends and colleagues are gone. One of those who died was in chiro school with me. He died of a massive coronary in his office. Too busy taking care of others, he failed to attend to his own health. I'll miss him.
Today I got news that my beloved Little Princess has a cancerous mass in the wall of her small intestine. She's had slightly elevated liver enzyme levels, so I opted to take her in for an abdominal ultrasound.
While this showed that her liver was slightly small, an 'incidental finding' was a tumor about the size of 1 1/2 golf balls.
To cut, or not to cut, that is the question. Baby Girl is 12, yet is in excellent health, especially for her age. If I don't have surgery done on her, she'll die a pretty miserable death. She may, however, expire due to anesthesia. And although there was no evidence that the Big C is metastatic, there's no guarantee that it hasn't.
What to do.........
