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Posted by Laurie G. in CA on July 26, 2008, 10:16 pm
So sorry to hear about all the sadness and your illness but I do want to
wish you a Happy Birthday. I want you to know that someone (me) is thinking
about YOU. I'm sending you virtual balloons in your favorite
color..........just imagine.......
Best wishes to you,
Laurie G. in Ca
> Today is my birthday. Yay. My mom called -- she says her doctor called
> and told her that the PET scan she had last week shows only one very
> small area of unusual cells lighting up and that they can't really
> tell yet what kind of cells they are. She may be just fine. She says.
> And, coincidentally, the results of her liver biopsy have been lost
> and no one can see them anymore.
>
> Maybe she had a biopsy when she told my sisters she did (and they
> dropped her at the hospital and picked her up the next day all gray
> and tired), and maybe she didn't.
>
> Maybe she has cancer and will die very soon. Or maybe she doesn't have
> anything wrong. Something quite similar happened years ago, but I have
> very young children at the time and my attention was elsewhere. This
> time, I'm sick and my mom is 83 and I haven't seen her in two years.
>
> I strongly believe she has Munchusen's Syndrome.
>
> This is exhausting. Although I try to stay focused and reserve my
> emotional strength, I'm rotten at it. I'm in a lupus flare right now.
> I love my mom. I don't want her to suffer the way I've watched friends
> suffer in dying from liver cancer. I feel yanked all apart.
>
> No need to respond. No need to do anything, but please could you send
> some good thoughts and prayers my way. I'm embarrassed to be asking
> like this, but right now I'm too far down to even enjoy going to my
> sewing room and holding fabric. Please go hug somebody you love.
>
> Hugs to you all,
> Sunny
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