Hi all. Thanks for your helpful posts. It made the week of waiting better knowing there were caring folk out there! We got some tough news on Wednesday. Mick was diagnosed with a very rare bladder cancer called Carcinosarcoma. We had hoped for better news- but are working hard to make lemonade from the little lemons. We know it is muscle invasive- but will receive exact staging on Tuesday morning when we meet with his surgeon. Mick will have his bladder and prostrate removed soon-likely next month after he heals from the TURBT.
We have so many people holding us close to their hearts. So many people praying, dropping by food, coming over to cheer us up, joking and laughing to help us keep our load light, watching our dogs when we needed to be at the hospital, talking to our kids to cheer them on, shoveling our snow- wow! The world is so good.
Mick and I discovered this book called "Radical Remission" last night. I downloaded on my Nook and stayed up most the night reading. We are going to follow the 9 suggested steps with aims of reversing this cancer. (organic foods, meditation, joy-filled living etc.) It is a rare one indeed- just 1-3% of the folks get this neoplasm. Mick decided this diagnosis, nor its projected prognosis will define him. I like that! We are walking on this journey side by side. Something inside of me is confident my guy can get full remission. 25 years ago he walked fire- yep, blazing hot coals and his mind over matter resulted in no injury. My strong, solid, grounded, funny, kind and loving guy and I are going to walk coals toward radical remission. People do recover. People do beat the odds. I wish all of you well in your journey and am sending you special thoughts to beat the odds. Blessings, Jannie