Over on weblog, I wrote about the snow which has been falling all day. I made a second entry after a call from my SIL. New blog as follows:
It is still snowing out, I had to go redo the driveway or mylarry could never get the Scion in. My back aches, but that’s no big deal compared to this afternoon’s news.
What a craptacular day, my brother now has multiple myeloma on top of his amyloidosis. The amyloids are protein chains in the major organs, unusual without cancer, but that’s what he has. but now, now! Now he has cancer, the blood markers rose to the levels indicating cancer. Myeloma is cancer of the blood plasma cells. Ugly incurable diseases both of them.
When he was diagnosed with the amyloids, they said he would die in six months, they were wrong. Now he has cancer, everything changes. He begins chemo next week, and some other treatment I don’t understand. I hate to ask and ask, so I will wait a bit. If the chemo and the drugs work, he has a few years. Real specific, that. If the treatment does not work, he has six to eight months to live.
