Lisa
Her husband became her advocate.
Both of my parents died from Cancer. My Dad had Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma diagnosed in January of 1983. On February 18, 1984, he was gone.
My Mom, we discovered a brain tumor in 1993 around Thanksgiving. She had Medicare insurance, SSA Disabled. She was 62 years old and the doctors told her not to worry about it, she was old anyway. I was furious. We couldn’t get more tests approved or treatment for it. As time went on her balance was off. Then the situation changed. She remarried. She was in Oregon, and my situation changed and I was in Michigan. Long story. Her husband became her advocate. She finally got more tests and found she had 5 brain tumors. They finally did the tests after she passed out in a food store. That’s when the doctors woke up and said hmm maybe there’s a problem. In the meantime, before all this, she had a heart attack and another stroke. She had had one at 34 years of age. Eventually, the doctors said there was nothing they could do for her brain tumors. And the tests showed lesions as if a hand were on her brain. Mets. My stepdad, God love him, took care of her at home. Home Health Care would come in with pain meds until finally Hospice was recommended. My stepdad had a very hard time with this. He loved my Mom. When she left us on March 1, 2009, he drove around with her ashes in his car in the passenger seat buckled next to him. I talked to him daily long-distance to tell him to let go. Finally, a friend helped him. We still spoke after that. He died from Lung Cancer eight years later. He never got over my Mom.
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