Dear Corky,

Your sharing with us the ups and downs and ups, and from now on it has to be steadily UP, has been a great help to me. Little did I know when you first told me of your son's diagnosis that my son would be diagnosed only months later with a soft tissue sarcoma in the inner thigh. The tumor was 5 cm, and the Dr assures us that all cancer and surrounding muscle is removed, and the leg will be OK again with physical therapy. (amputation is a word that frightens us beyond description - thank goodness it did not come to that) I was terrified while the operation lasted, and it took many hours. And so thankful to see both legs when it was over.
Now comes the 9 weeks of radiation and after that chemo. The tumor was more malignant than we were told at first.
Our son is 39, married and they have two small girls. I am aching to help, but we live too far away to see them often, and I am at times no help when my PD makes me shake and lose my balance.
Thank you Corky for giving me hope.
love from birte