...and I'd really appreciate any help I can get. My boyfriend of 3 years was diagnosed in early November 2007 with small cell cancer. We were told he had 6-10 "spots" on his brain and a spot on his pancreas. His treatment has been chemo but his onc wants to radiate the brain. He is on his 6th round and will go for a follow up PET scan and MRI on the brain in 2 weeks.
He's doing great! The treatment is working and we were told the 6-10 spots had reduced to 1 and the pancreas spot had all but disappeared. The area on his lung had gone from 5 mml to 3 mml.
He's cut down from 2 packs to 5 cigarettes a day...but can't totally quit yet.
He isn't eating anything special. Doesn't take vitamins or drink any special drinks. He's been clean and sober for 5 years.
He lives with his elderly father and I live in a townhouse that I own. We always talked about moving in together...sometime...and maybe getting married...some day. We thought we had all this time.
Don't get me wrong. We are thinking positive...he's doing really well with the treatment...his weight is up. We go to the health club and workout and he's lifting weights like he did before he got sick.
I'm having a hard time with it lately though. It's hard to think of the future without him. He's going to be 52 this year and he says he is going to make it to be 55. I just turned 48 and I told him he has to make it to see me turn 50. He says that's two more years...he can do that!
Any words of advice anyone can give me...I'd really appreciate it!
Thank you!
