Five month roller coaster ride and still rolling.

Thank you.  My older daughter told me to get into a gentic testing program for pancreatc and breast cancer.  My both my father's sisters had breast cancer as well and the daughter of one of my aunts.  (The other had sons.)  My 2 daughters comprise the only non single female per generation in my mother's family for  six generatios that we know of.  The colitis is easing up.  I've learned to spell it [colitis] ]correctly.   The Prednisone is making me a little hyper but I'm dealing.  My sense of humor helps.  The irony is  I have always been the care giver.  My husband had a heart attack at age 36  [1976]; quadripple by-pass at forty[1981].  He had stents and a pacemaker/defibrilater/cardio-ventrical syncronization device implanted this century.  I've been the care giver for my parents, our diabled [younger] daughter and him. They [husbandand daughters] are holding up, but I'm worried about them.  I'm very aware  that there are families younger than mine dealing with this [cancer].  I'm 71.  When I was recieving my first infustion there was a young woman being treated, as part of a clinical trial, for inopperable brain cancer. She was young enough to be my granddaughter.   As much a I may regret things done and not done, I did have the time to mess up my own life. Older daughter tells me I have to stay around to be a crabby old lady. She says I'm entitled.

Thank you.  My older daughter told me to get into a gentic testing program for pancreatc and breast cancer.  My both my father's sisters had breast cancer as well and the daughter of one of my aunts.  (The other had sons.)  My 2 daughters comprise the only non single female per generation in my mother's family for  six generatios that we know of.  The colitis is easing up.  I've learned to spell it [colitis] ]correctly.   The Prednisone is making me a little hyper but I'm dealing.  My sense of humor helps.  The irony is  I have always been the care giver.  My husband had a heart attack at age 36  [1976]; quadripple by-pass at forty[1981].  He had stents and a pacemaker/defibrilater/cardio-ventrical syncronization device implanted this century.  I've been the care giver for my parents, our diabled [younger] daughter and him. They [husbandand daughters] are holding up, but I'm worried about them.  I'm very aware  that there are families younger than mine dealing with this [cancer].  I'm 71.  When I was recieving my first infustion there was a young woman being treated, as part of a clinical trial, for inopperable brain cancer. She was young enough to be my granddaughter.   As much a I may regret things done and not done, I did have the time to mess up my own life. Older daughter tells me I have to stay around to be a crabby old lady. She says I'm entitled.

Thank you.  My older daughter told me to get into a gentic testing program for pancreatc and breast cancer.  My both my father's sisters had breast cancer as well and the daughter of one of my aunts.  (The other had sons.)  My 2 daughters comprise the only non single female per generation in my mother's family for  six generatios that we know of.  The colitis is easing up.  I've learned to spell it [colitis] ]correctly.   The Prednisone is making me a little hyper but I'm dealing.  My sense of humor helps.  The irony is  I have always been the care giver.  My husband had a heart attack at age 36  [1976]; quadripple by-pass at forty[1981].  He had stents and a pacemaker/defibrilater/cardio-ventrical syncronization device implanted this century.  I've been the care giver for my parents, our diabled [younger] daughter and him. They [husbandand daughters] are holding up, but I'm worried about them.  I'm very aware  that there are families younger than mine dealing with this [cancer].  I'm 71.  When I was recieving my first infustion there was a young woman being treated, as part of a clinical trial, for inopperable brain cancer. She was young enough to be my granddaughter.   As much a I may regret things done and not done, I did have the time to mess up my own life. Older daughter tells me I have to stay around to be a crabby old lady. She says I'm entitled.