The worst thing in my life happened on 2-25-2023. My friend and my wife of 23 years dies in her sleep after a 5 month long battle with Acute Myeloid Leukemia.. I fkn hate cancer. One week Kathy's walking the neighborhood for an hour and the next she getting a blood sample because her arms & legs were getting spots on them kind of like small bruises. Kathy thinks it's hives and I think it's something else so we get a quick blood sample at a close by Urgent Care office.
It's Leukemia the doctors say. So I put her in my car and rushed her to our local hospital. More blood samples confirm the 1st test and the local hospital doesn't treatment for Leukemia. We find a "bed" for Kathy's treatment and rush from Knoxville to the Sarah Cannon Center in Nashville, TN because it was the only place that could treat her immediately.
Ten days later and after aggressive chemo treatment Kathy had to be put on a ventilator because the chemo almost killer her. After 4 weeks in the hospital they sent us home to Knoxville because "there was nothing more they could do."
My wife was terminal. We got 4 more months of her which is in itself a miracle because they gave her 2 days - to 2 weeks when we left Nashville. Watching your loved one die slowly die is absolute misery. In our case, the treatment was worse than the "cure."
I love you and miss you my darling!
ENERGY TO GET OUT OF BED AND EAT SITTING UP.
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| Kathy with Mumu & Maddie before cancer. |
