Quote Originally Posted by Beirut View Post
Kadagar,

I feel your pain. Both my parents died of brain cancer and it was nothing less than Hell on Earth. My dad went from 220lbs and an IQ high enough to boil water to a weak, scared, thin shadow of his former self. he lasted about nine-months. My mother lasted about six-months, and I could live five lifetimes and never completely get over the stress of pushing her back and forth around the house at two in the morning in her wheelchair while she listened to "anti-suicide" feel-good tapes on Walkman to keep her spirits up.

You have few options except for patience. You simply have to learn to survice, grasp what happiness and quiet you can during the person's illness and know that in the end, even when the end means the death of the person, peace will come to you.

Read the classics, have a beer, watch a funny movie, do anything that brings you even a moment's peace of mind. Those koments will hold you together. And try to find some kind of spirituality that gives you strength.

Survice, my brother, survive. You are living the human condition and you must never for a moment regret or feel guilty about finding peace of mind.
Thanks, I guess this is what I looked for as I wrote the post...

It means a lot just hearing there is someone else who has been through it... And of course my condoleances, and deepest respect for what you have been through.

At least I still have some vague hope of it all going well, but, 2 operations and some chemo/radiation later, it gets very hard to keep the hope up.




Sir Clegane, thanks!