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My brother and hospice
I had to take my brother to the doctor last week while he was officially told that there was nothing else they could do for him and that he needed to go under hospice care. His doctor told him that he had at the best..a couple of months, but that he could likely go in a few weeks with organ failure. He has been battling melanoma. We were expecting this but it is so awful to hear it. He told his doctor that he had tried his best and of course we cried (not the doctor, he was pretty cheery). Actually, he was trying to get my brother to see there was a better place waiting him, but that's a hard thing to believe sometimes. I went this week and took care of all the funeral plans, my husband and I bought plots right next to my brothers, under a big oak tree. My brother was worried about being buried by himself, that made him smile when I told him. He was a bachelor and had no children...just crazy mom. He is now sleeping almost all the time, maybe up an hour or two a day. Please pray that God sends him an angel of reassurance. He said that he had been having awful dreams...something was coming to get him and he had been fighting them with all he had, he said he wasn't ready to go with them. This broke my heart. I pray God sends him something positive so he won't feel afraid and alone, please pray with me. ..tks..sherryg683
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Sherry
Diagnosed: December , 2005 at age 44
13+ positive lymph nodes
Stage IV , Her2+, 2 small mets to lungsChemo Started: Jan, 2006
4 months Taxotere, Xeloda, Hercepin
NED since April 2006!!
36 Rads to follow with weekly Herceptin indefinately
8 years NED now
Scans every year
Life is not about avoiding the thunderstorms, it's about learning to dance in the rain!
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