There is no question that the cancer will kill him. This is not in dispute. The question really is, what kind of quality of life can he have between right now and the end?<\/p>\n
The thing of it is: “right now” changes. <\/p>\n
He has stabilized to the point that “right now” is not the hour-by-hour affair that it was even a week ago. We’re up to day-by-day, which is a huge improvement.<\/p>\n
We met with the radiologist-oncologist today and got at least a rough timeline and treatment plan, and got a lot of our questions about the tumor part of it answered (radiation + chemo…yummy). This makes my aunt feel better.<\/p>\n
Tomorrow we’re going to try to meet with his caseworker at the hospital (talk about lack of communication: the caseworker didn’t even know he was supposed to be in her caseload) and get all the questions that weren’t appropriate today answered.<\/p>\n
I’m guardedly hopeful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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