[Nfbmo] Update on My Dad's Cancer Situation

[Gail Bryant]

Mary, The mos wonderful thing about being in NFB besides all of the work we 
do is that we are just one big extended family.  Please know our prayers and 
love are with you and your family.  I can speak from personal experience 
hospice is wonderful.  They were so good to my mom.
Gail Bryant
Certified Teacher of the Visually Impaired
Columbia Braille Teaching Services L.L.C.
1212 London Drive
Columbia, MO 65203-2012
Phone: 573 817-5993
Cell: 573 268-4962
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mary Donahue" <braille at sbcglobal.net>
To: <faith-talk at nfbnet.org>; <nfbmo at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 21, 2009 4:46 PM
Subject: [Nfbmo] Update on My Dad's Cancer Situation


> Good afternoon everyone,
>
>    Some of you know about my dad's cancer, but, for those on the NFB of
> Missouri list, I am going to summarize anyway. Since before Christmas last
> year, my dad had suffered with cancer in one of the lymph nodes, which
> spread from the original bladder cancer he acquired in August, 2008. When 
> my
> parents went back to Wisconsin from Arizona last April, Dad had a 
> check-up,
> and was given at least a year. He underwent chemotherapy until the end of
> August. After my parents returned to Arizona in October,and after another
> doctor's visit the day before Halloween, they found out the cancer had
> spread to the hip bone and to the liver. Now, Dad is given six months or
> less to live. He can get around using a walker and a cane, and it's been 
> an
> effort for him to talk. Since Last Wednesday, he has been under hospice
> care.
>
>    My parents are flying back to Wisconsin on Friday morning. The closest
> big airport to Hayward, Wisconsin, where their summer home is is
> Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, which means that there is a
> three-hour flight to Minneapolis, and then another two-and-a-half-hour 
> ride
> to Hayward. As it stands right now, all of my side of the family will be
> together, so it will be a bittersweet Christmas for me.
>
>   So far, Dad is holding his own, but I will try to talk to him tomorrow.
> Please continue to pray for him, and any words of encouragement will be
> appreciated.
>
>    Thank you in advance.
>
> Mary Donahue
>
>
> "Be Well, Do good Work, and keep in touch."
> Garrison Keillor
>
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