Thank you for your prayers and concern! Made my day! This has been a crazy winter with record snowfall....over 70 inches in 3 weeks. Yes, over 40 roofs of businesses have collapsed in Spokane which is the city near us. Some of the places were large businesses like a large grocery store and a fitness club. We have the National Guard in our school district today shoveling off our school roofs. We could hear them up there all day long. BLESS THEM! This is our first day back...3 days off and 2 days prior to Winter Vacation. The snow has now turned to rain which has left a mess all over the state with flooding. A very unusual winter...as you know our hot water tank went out and then our pipes froze and bursted. Like I told Carol though, we have each other and no one has been hurt in our family. I've been clearing off our roof to make things safe. There was so much snow up there! It was HEAVY snow too! I hurt all over! :oO Thanks again for your thoughts and prayers! I love our friends on the forum! God bless! Bear Hugs! Kirk

Her son is adjusting well. He helps her out more around the house too. And she is lucky she lives next to her mom and dad so they help her out too (like cleaning her cat box since she was told not too while she is going through chemo). She said she never realized how much her son loved her until she was going into surgery and he was holding her hand the entire way. Terry has a great sense of humor and a good attitude so I'm sure that helps in putting her son's mind at ease. She strikes me as the type of mom who would cry alone so as not to upset him. She is also a little overwhelmed with the cost of everything but she is thankful when insurance covers the cost of her wig/hair pieces and the clinic gives her samples of extremely expensive medications. Keep those prayers comin'!

He's doing so much better; walking up and down the driveway now, probably out for a month or so, altho he's already back on the phone, no stopping that unless I hide it outside. Worst thing about the whole experience: his obvious pain while they were determining if indeed it was heart trouble. Best thing: (except for them saving his LIFE), everyone, white, black, every single person in the cardio ICU waiting room, strangers to me going in, waiting with me, patting me, praying for Robert, holding my hand, they were all so concerned.. (nurses had told them and their loved ones waiting for surgery that Robert had flat lined several times and he was really lucky), quite a bonding experience with several people there and many are calling about him everyday. humans; as soon as I'm about to give up on them, they do something like that. as always, my advice, mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be football players;-) (their poor wives suffer the consequences far down the road!)

I hope her leukemia will respond to treatment. Both my mother and two schoolmates died of this -- long, sad declines. DH has been attending lectures his college presents for alums. Presenters for this series were all MD's and PhD's in Medicine. One lecturer said everyone has had or will have 'cancer'. Often our immune systems take care of them, and we never know we've had them. He said that if one lives long enough at least one cancer will overcome our immune systems. I wish I could remember which two cancers do not metastasize. I *think* they are pancreatic and liver.