Sorry for the lack of posts. I brought my mom home. She now has a huge infected bedsore that encompasses most of her backside. She didn’t eat right while in the hospital, can’t say I blame her since a starving dog wouldn’t eat what they serve. I just flat out told the doctor I’m taking her home. Of course we had to go into hospice since I couldn’t take care of her completely by myself. I’ve checked right and left and hospice is the only option in this whole area that takes medicare/medicaid and provides the services that hospice does. It’s really sad that you have to give up and die to get help.
I also received more bad news. My cousin Charlene who stuck by me the whole time mom was in the hospital and who said she would pack a bag and come stay with me to help out, is in the hospital herself now. She’s been having bad headaches for a month and the medical doctor said it was sinus. Well a ct scan Sunday showed 3 small spots of cancer. She called the cancer doctor and he put her in the hospital. She actually has lung cancer that spread to her brain.
I’m telling you right here, right now. We had better step up and do something before it’s too late for everybody. I’ve been doing research on cancer and I’ve talked to different people, and the consensus is it’s the preservatives in our food and the crap they spray on the crops these days that is killing us. It’s going to get to the point where cancer is as common as a damn cold, too bad you can’t lay in bed for a week and get over cancer.
May 16th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
Sorry to hear about your mom, and I agree about the Hospice situation. I pray that her and your sister both get better. Cancer is just much like getting the common cold, or at least that’s the way Doctors seem to put it. Chele, I do agree with the way you think. Too many people actually DON”T care, and they WON’T until it actually happens to THEM.
May 18th, 2009 at 11:01 am
I am so sorry to learn about your mom and your cousin. I am confident you have enough faith to get through this.
In my religion, taking care of one’s mother, especially at older age, is highly appreciated by the Lord. The reward is simple and straight forward: the paradise.
May 27th, 2009 at 9:13 am
I hear ya and pray for your cousin and Mom, what happened to the good ole days where folks planted gardens in there backyards and lived of that winter, spring, and the like.
Cancer is spreading like wildfire, everyone has cancer cells in there bodies some folks become active if there isn’t even an ounce of history of cancer in the family.
Keep smiling there is always a light at the end of the dark tunnel
monkey
June 30th, 2009 at 8:24 am
For 5 years, I volunteered my computer to do computational chemistry at ud.com to find a cure for cancer, as I had just lost one of my best friends, a pastor’s wife, and missionary, to breast cancer. All of the results went to the University of Oxford…Since that time, there is now, http://www.worldgrid.org
Help Conquer Cancer project announcement:
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Help Conquer Cancer runs only on the BOINC client. For more information about BOINC see the last article in this newsletter.
Other Research Projects:
The Help Conquer Cancer project is the fifth research project that is currently active on World Community Grid. The other four projects include: Human Proteome Folding - Phase II, FightAIDS@Home, Discovering Dengue Drugs - Together, and AfricanClimate@Home. We hope that you are participating in one or more of these projects. For more information about all five projects, please click here.
For anyone and everyone anywhere on Planet Earth who cares,
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