Now it was an odd request of a firm agnostic, not to mention
it was out of the blue, so of course one enquired as to why she would need them.
It seems that they have found lung cancer and are set to remove part of her
lungs rather than go the chemo route. Chatting to her one could hear her body
struggle to get breath as she spoke. Words came out with that all too familiar
wheezing, gasp sound that is never a good indicator.
It was only caught because her regular doctor was away and
the new bloke, rather than hearing her chest and thinking oh it's just the
remains of the pleurisy/ pneumonia that she had at Christmas (the woman doesn't
have what you would describe as good health) , had sent her off for chest x-rays.
That was when they found the shadow and sent her off for even more painful,
invasive tests. As she said some of them were worse than the news they finally
gave her. That new was, of course, that the nodes in her lungs were cancerous.
That charming, energetic, immaculately turned out 72 year
old woman has survived floods, uprisings, breast cancer, an assortment of
surgeries and long term ill health. She is the sort of woman who makes you
laugh because as she says if you don't sometimes you will just cry. Now one
isn't much for prayers, but one sincerely hopes that she will pull through.
Work is certainly a brighter place when she turns up.
2 comments:
I don't know you and I don't know her, but that was very touching. I'll put out a little good energy and hope it finds its way to her. Thanks for sharing!
And thank you for the good energy... it can't hurt :D
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