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Subject: Digest Number 663

Date: 2001-04-19 03:33

Priority: 3

Message ID: B15979D58134D5118BBD00A0C9EA57D7

There are 2 messages in this issue.

Topics in this digest:

1. Re: Ellen/pt.2

2. Re: Happy Birthday!!!

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Message: 1

Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 23:43:56 -0700 (PDT)

Subject: Re: Ellen/pt.2

--- bluupoint@... wrote:

> I forgot to add...Your husband must be one brave man

> to have gone

> thru that surgery(whipple proceadure)and survived!.

> I cant even

> imagine what that must have been like for the two of

> you. You have

> all my respect!!.

>

> Andi

>

>

It's been quite an 18 months! Last year, right before

Easter, Art's onc did a ct scan and (not having seen

sclerosing cholangitis before, I guess) told us that

there were spots on his liver and that he was sure the

cancer had spread. It turned out to be fluid back up

-a month later the spots were smaller and were moving

around...but before was found that, Art's dad died, on

Easter Sunday morning. Then in August, his mom died.

Throw in my mom having a hip replacement, my dad

having a skin cancer removed, I got bit by a student

on the job (will have the scar for a long time, but I

did get a free Hep B series :-), me having my job

placement suddenly up in the air and developing a

uterine tumor (turned out to be a fibroid), this psc

diagnosis, my daughter's favorite Mained Coon Cat died

(of cancer), my mom being diagnosed with retinal

veinal occlusion and my dad having his by-pass...the

mental hospital is sounding better and better...I tell

the kids if I sound tired and cranky - well, I'm

probably tired and cranky! I'm really not whining,

(maybe a little shell-shocked) but I do feel like I've

earned every single gray hair I have...

It's really only been in the last few days that I've

been " lost " . God is good, and every single time that

something has been diagnosed, it has turned out the

best way that it possibly could have. And He's been

preparing us for this for a long time. 11 years ago

we bought a very old house in a historic neighborhood

that is now in an inner city. People questioned our

sanity and our judgement (it had been boarded up and

empty for 5 years and you could stand in the attic and

look all the way down to the basement, it took $40,000

to make it liveable). And we were absolutely sure

that God wanted us here. And, it happens to be 3

blocks away from the cancer center and hospital where

Art had his surgery. The kids could walk back and

forth, stay just a little bit (Tom had a really hard

time staying for more than a few minutes at a time),

but I could spend a lot of time there.

His GI is in the same building, and they do everything

right there, so he can just stop on his way home from

work for whatever...

:-) Ellen

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