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Darn!!!! I was hoping he would do well on Tarceva. Sure hope and pray these things will stop!! Keep us posted. Love Nell

Waiting and praying! Love Nell

Beth, So glad to hear your visit with the surgeon was a good one. I am praying that whatever it is will be kicked out! Love Nell

Praying here too, so sorry you have so much to deal with right now. Love Nell

We are all praying for you and thinking of you. Love Nell

Oh what a blessing your news is!!!!!! I am so glad! Love Nell

Angie Dear, Praying for you and your family. Love Nell

I have no wisdom either Beth, but my prayers are yours for sure. There is lots of sound advice and strength here and I am coming to stand next to you in spirit just like all the rest of us. Love Nell

David, Prayers on the way! Love Nell

Hello my precious cyber family. Today Bob got a hospital bed, and some new meds and got rid of some old meds. The hopsice people are truly wonderful. He is not able to walk at all and it is so shocking because exactly a week ago he went up a small flight of stairs to turn his keyboard on for my little grand daughter to play with. We spent from 10 this morning to 9 or so tonight there and helped move furniture to get the bed space ready, and such, and visited with them. Laughed and cried of course on and off. It was so funny, because Bob and I were sparring about one of his meds. He didn't want to take it, was the liguid morphine for breakthrough pain, and finally I said " You are at my mercy, open up" and sick as he was feeling he gets this little smirk on his face and flips me off!!!!! I swear we all laughed till he was very short of breath. The pain is pretty rough, but the hospice nurses are getting it controlled some finally. He did not eat a thing today. Was just not up to it he said, and that was hard on all of us. His daughter is coming in from Cincinnatti tomorrow and staying till Wednesday. That will be good. He adores her, and she is a sweetie. I know you all say we are these wonderful friends to them, but really and truly, we couldn't do anything different. It's our privilege. Praying hard for the rough times so many are going through. Love you all Nell

Well hell is right! I am so on the dang edge of tears right now, and that news just sent me right over the edge again.. sheesh. Boy am I mad, let me at those beastly cells!! Prayers and more prayers for you Addie. Am adding you and Beth every time we pray for Bob which is several times an hour right now I think. Love and strength Nell

Ellen, You know my prayers are with you and Len. Please keep us posted, we will be waiting to hear. Love Nell

Oh Addie, My prayers are with you too, just said one, and will keep on. Love Nell

Adding my prayers too.

He ended up getting several opinions finally, and the consensus is that he would not be able to handle chemo, although the onc said when we were there the other day that it would only buy him a few weeks if at all and none of them reccomended it for his bone mets. They gave him the option of tarceva but he said no because he wants to feel as well as possible in these last months, or weeks and they felt like it wasn't apt to do much for him at this point. It is a bit rough on all of us, because we saw 2 docs that day and I think the one would have tried the tarceva sooner if he had been taking care of Bob, but I don't know if Bob would have done it anyways, he is pretty much feeling he does not want to keep on with hard treatments. The radiaton really was hard on him, which we expected, but he actually got sicker after it, not better. The docs feeled he was so weakend with his ostheoporosis, emphysema, and bone mets that he just can't withstand much. I want to try a million things and borrow Beckys dragon slayer, but he feels it is time to stop. We so very much appreciate all your prayers and good thoughts. I know I will be here a lot in the next days. Hope I am not too much of a drain and not giving back much. Love Nell

Don, Prayers for you both coming your way. It sounds like your doc is pretty aggressive at looking for treatment and such. Hoping all is well very soon, and what a great idea to think ahead and plan something nice like that cruise. Love Nell

Beth, I am so upset to read your news. I will be praying for you and your family very hard. Love Nell

I hope we hear from her soon. She's been on my mind too.

What great news!

That is something I will really be looking into myself eventually. Ry were you on the board of the one you told me about? That is the one I want to volunteer at someday. Love Nell

Awww how sweet. Love Nell

Rachel, your news is so wonderful!! Have a great trip. Love Nell

Oh Becky, The house is so pretty! Love Nell

I wanted to come here and lean on you all for a minute, I feel like I need your prayers and thoughts for Bob and Jo. Today we went (Bob, Jo, and I) to see his onc. and had a list of questions for him that we needed very clear answers to. Bob in particular helped write out these questions because he feels he needs to know what is happening and as much as possible, what to expect. The first thing we asked after he read over Bob's chart and asked some things of Bob and listened to his lungs was.. What is his prognosis. He told us that it was 4-6 months from the diagnosis of the bone met.. so we are very short on time according to that. Then we asked if we could hope for any improvement from this point. He said no, and that right now is the best he will be, and that it will get harder from here. He says Bob has probably got a recurrence in the other lung, as well as some other bone mets. His breathing is getting harder to handle. His appetite is very small , and he struggles with constipation as well. His pain is not really under control. The onc. reccomended we begin hospice immediately, and they will be out to see us tomorrow. He says they will get the pain better controlled. Also, we were supposed to get a port for the Zometa, which he discontinued as well as the Lupron shots for his prostate cancer, since he says all that is irrelevant because the prostate would move much slower than the mets from the lung cancer. We sort of expected this kind of news because Bob has gone downhill so quickly in the last month, but it still knocked the wind out of all of us. They, along with Art and I, and their kids and our kids have cried on and off all day, but laughed on and off too about little silly family things that would pop up and tickle all of us, especially Bob. It's another phase of the journey, and we need your prayers . Love Nell

Ginny, The good day is really good! So quick to sell and for the price you asked. I can imagine since we built our house how that might tear at you, but as everyone else and you yourself said, Earl will go with you. I think the Eagles did give them a run for their money, hope they do it next year. Love Nell