I do appreciate your prayers may god hear one of us because the DH just got off the phone with his sister and his dad has a nodule on his lung that may also be anything from more cancer to an infection of some sort, but they've no choice but to take his kidney now, so morbid though it sounds, if he survives that then they'll deal with the lung afterwards even though the mass could contribute to him not surviving his surgery. Maybe I should crawl into an icebox and get thawed out in 2020 but my mother at least is saving her own self some craziness by simply taking a leave of absence from work once she finishes up this week.

I'm super shocked that I haven't had another relapse with all of this going on not even a pseudo relapse but then I don't think my brain has had time to catch up with it all the worst of things has only been going on for a couple of weeks just daily dreading answering the phone or even crawling out of bed wondering what's going to happen today and how many of those "other" shoes can positively drop in a single day. Oh and my brother's getting divorced barely a week after he was under the impression things were going great in his relationship and they had gotten back on track.... 2020 might be too optimistic lol

Maybe with all that's going on your thoughts have been elsewhere and are too busy for a relapse....thank God for that......


Gerry

Omgoodness, Starz!!! You certainly have a lot going on right now. I said some prayers for you and your family. You have gotten hit by so much this year. I too hope that 2018 is a much better year.

Please remember to take some time for some self care. It really helps to when we take a little bit of time for ourselves, even if it's only 10 minutes.

Woohoo... looks like Irma at least won't be yet another smack in the face to us... fingers crossed that Jose as well will avoid coming this way. Sending out prayers to all in their paths,though I feel a little bad keeping a few to myself... MRI gave decided confirmation on what the doctor already knew, the rotator cuff is torn and quite the tear(s) and its causing inflammation to the muscle fibers as well (no wonder why my right arm has been hurting non-stop) so surgery will need to be done, regardless of the spasms, not doing so will only lead to continued pain and further inability to use the arm. And since it's also leading to pinching of several nerves and decreased blood flow.. it's one of of those pain aside, needs corrective surgery or I could lose my arm.

But with 2 hurricanes coming in from the Atlantic who knows when such a surgery will take place... so... fun right ....

And just another small update, my father in law made it through his surgery and is doing better than the doctors had expected though far less well than those without COPD and diabetes. So he's still in ICU, but the doctors are highly optimistic that he shoupdated be well enough soon for them to biopsy his lung next to see what's going on with the lesion they found there. My father also made it through his cataract surgery well, and next week we'll be down in Gainesville overnight (barring Jose messing things up) for another scan of his throat, determination of radiation, chemo, or both, and follow-up on his eye. Then the following week I get to go see the neuro-surgeon who will be putting in my baclofen pump, and as I said Irma has kind of messed up any surgical follow-up for my shoulder so dunno on that one.

But hey I got to see my GB for 3 whole days, and spoiled her rotten the whole time lol. She's with her daddy a lot more and while I don't personally care for him, he does right by my GB so all personal feelings get left at the side of the road when it comes to her and he has about the same feelings about dealing with me as well so we can get along perfectly when it comes to the GB, anything else and all bets are off lol.

Made it through Irma fine, hope everyone else in its path is safe as well. Now to see what Jose does