@jerryc131 My husband was diagnosed in July 2024. He never did Chemo or received any Treatment. Unfortunately , he had a lot of setbacks with the Surgery but he had been a Diabetic since he was 40 and never took it seriously enough. He had Kidney Cancer 4 years before this Diagnosis and lost a Kidney. He was finally recovering from all of that when he had to have a
double Heart bypass. It took him a long while to get over that Surgery when he all of a sudden started to lose weight which then took us on the path of all of the testing before finally getting
this Diagnosis. I have to say he had a hard 6 months after the surgery but after that we had a good year of being able to go out to dinner with Friends and just really enjoy our Family. He was able to eat anything he wanted and had a good quality of Life.
Just in the last 6 weeks, things changed and he has been on a steady decline since. He has
almost stopped eating completely and lost 17 lbs in the last 3 weeks. Sleeping so much more
and has just lost interest in going out or seeing friends. He definitely perks up whenever our
sons are around.
We went to see the Oncologist yesterday and they have referred him to Hospice Care. They will be here on Monday so I am anxious to be able to get a little more support for both of us.
We have been together since we were 17 years old and Seniors in High School. We will be married 51 years this July.
We have had a good life with a lot of Ups and Downs but thankfully we can laugh about the downs which mostly happened in the first several years of Marriage. I can say that this part of the Journey together is the hardest.