Good News, Bad News, Good News
Good
News: Jeff’s kidney function is
good. If his numbers are good in
September, Dr. Pat will push out the following visit to six months! Woohoo!
Bad
News: Our blood cancer networking group
had six new members this month. Some of their stories are pretty sad: a
husband/caregiver who was himself diagnosed with cancer a year after his wife’s
blood cancer diagnosis - when their daughter was 4 years old, and a single mother
of a 9-year-old blood cancer patient with unique challenges, and a quiet but
tough cop whipped by a blood cancer diagnosis.
We greeted them all, “It’s nice to meet you. Sorry you are a member of the club.”
Good
News: Although the tissue box was passed
along as the new members shared their stories, everyone was uplifted and
laughing by the end of the meeting. And
that is part of the reason we still attend this group. One man tentatively asked Jeff, “I don’t know
if this is okay to ask but do you have foamy urine?” Michael – who could have probably answered
the question on Jeff’s behalf - assured the new member, “There is nothing you
can’t talk about here.”
