My wife and I learned this week that she is suffering from a large malignant tumor in her sinuses. The cancer has spread to her lymth nodes and the PET scan indicates a mass on her left lung as well. The sinus cancer is called sinonasal undifferentiated carcinoma. The lung cancer type is yet to be determined by biopsy. We are devasted. We have been married for 26 years and we were best friends five years before that.
We are leaving for the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota on Monday. The tumor in her sinuses in inoperable and treatable with radiation and chemotherepy only. While there are becoming more success stories in dealing with this rare and fast growing type of cancer, the prognosis is generally not good.
Her JW mother sent her a card. First contact in twelve years. Her disfellowshipped father showed up at the hospital with the stepmother. It was a disaster. I had to kick them out. She has seven siblings. Three of them have made contact with her for the first time in many years. One is an inactive witness and the two are not witnesses. Ran into a local witness at a department store today. He actually greeted me. I was shocked.
Keep us in your thoughts or/and prayers if you wish.
Anyone out there that has had this type of cancer? How was it treated? Any ideas?
Thank you.