It has been 1 year and 6 months now since the second tragic lose in my life. JANET, who saved me after the first lose in my life of JOAN, how could it have been this long ?
It has been a struggle I must tell you, to move to a place where I want to go on living. That is still in question. Several people have entered my life during that period since Janet's death. All have been very caring and very supportive. Without them, I'm not sure I would be here to write this.
On June 11th of this year I was told that a Biopsy, taken a week earlier, of my Left Tonsil was positive for Squamous Cell Carcinoma HPV. Although the doctor told me it was not a death sentence, and was treatable, I just was not sure I cared. I have seen so much of this Cancer thing in my life, at 75 years old, it was hard to know if I felt like dealing with the battle.
The woman that I had met through correspondence, and was then spending time with when this occurred, Sheila Thompson-Ockey, was not willing to accept those thoughts, on my part, and urged me to fight it. We had become very fond of each other, over several months and found ourseves caring very much for each other. I am still trying to imagine why she would want to become involved with this mess (me), but am very happy and fortunate that she has.
We both traveled to Houston in mid June, to MD Anderson Cancer Center of the University of Texas Medical Center for consultation with the Head and Neck staff of doctors there. After their review of existing diagnoses and images, and their own scans and exams, they concluded it had been found early and was...
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