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November 13, 2006

It's Going Around or Something...

It's turning out to be another of 'those' months. My uncle (married to my Aunt Rita) is undergoing several tests. He has been urinating blood, pain in the back, ashy color skin. He has taken off work from now til after Thanksgiving. He has already been in for an ultrasound and a dye test. Still do not know the test results yet, could range from kidney stones to kidney failure.

While voting this week, the postal officer (she also works with the other retired ladies as a vote worker) called mother over and told her that Grandfather hasn't paid his postal box fees or picked up his mail for quite some time. Mother called over there and was told by Pam that he has been in the hospital in Findlay for a high temperature and other problems (strangely we were not called about this even though we are less than ten miles away). He now has a 24hr catheter in and has been diagnosed with both melanoma (yes, the BAD BAD skin cancer) as well as prostate cancer. She told us that he has six months.

I have been trying to call various people in Florida just to let them know what is going on so they can make whatever decisions they need to. Several are calling and indicating that they will be coming up sometime between now and Christmas. Others are doing the typical 'poor me' crap and hitting the bottle and drugs. One has asked to stay here and been told he can as long as the bottle and pills arent touched, no matter what happens... he has agreed.

Definitely getting stressful.

Posted by Ravennacht at November 13, 2006 10:07 AM Posted to Health