On Wed, 04 Jan 2006 22:32:54 -0500, Bill >
wrote:

>On Mon, 02 Jan 2006 14:01:15 -0600, Andy <q> wrote:
>
>>I don't rant in Usenet much anywhere but today's the the day and this
>>is the place.
>>
>>
>>My brother's wife Lauri died this morning of lung cancer.
>>
>>I wonder if all the chemo and radiation didn't shorten her life, but it
>>sure didn't save it.
>>
>>She was a better sister to me than my own. [I know that's selfish, it's
>>just the way I'm feeling at the moment]
>>
>>Andy
>>There were Richard Pryors and Jonny Cash's but there was also Lauri
>>Stickel. [R.I.P.]
>>
>>At least she's got her father to look after her.
>>
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>
>you're post really hits home to me Andy! I am very sorry about your
>loss. I have been watching my wife slowly dieing with lung cancer for
>the last year and a half. She went through radiation treatments and
>chemotherapy treatments. Now, she has only weeks according to her
>doctor. Up until a month ago she was taking another course of
>chemotherapy treatments. She was five weeks into a nine week treatment
>once a week. She got so sick in that fifth week she really believed
>the doctor was going to kill her with the treatment. She said no
>more...I will take no more chemotherapy. So, the doctor has turned her
>over to hospice care...we have a hospital bed in the dining room where
>she lies all day...she can get up and walk eight steps to the bathroom
>but other than that she stays in bed all day. It's a terrible disease
>that seems to just keep eating away at her. She smoked.
>I lost my Dad back in June. He smoked too! He contracted a special
>"gum" cancer that only people who both smoke and drink liquor seem to
>catch. It started as a toothache. He got the tooth pulled back in
>January. A couple of weeks went by and it was still hurting him. He
>went back to the dentist and the dentist referred him to another
>doctor who did a biopsy. They determined there was cancer in the gum
>and recommended removing all his teeth and part of his gums saying
>this would probably cure him. It didn't. The cancer kept eating away.
>A sore appeared on his jaw in May as a reddened area. It kept getting
>worse until a hole opened in his jaw. Instead of healing it just kept
>getting larger and larger until he died in June. Slow motion
>death...that's what cancer is.
>
>Bill
>

thanks for caring folks!