ladylyzar

For those wondering about my mom, she had her surgery on June 6.  The cancer was still confined to the kidney, although it had begun to spread into the lining of the kidney.  The surgeon took several samples of surrounding tissue just to be sure, but it looks like we are in the clear for now.  The survival rate of stage II renal cell carcinoma is about 80%.  The oncologist is going to monitor her closely over the next several months. Mom is sore and not back to her old self yet - it may take several months - but she was well enough to come see us this week.  The boys were very happy to see their Grandma, although we had to explain to them th

... please send a good thought for my mom. She was diagnosed with kidney cancer today and will have her kidney removed next Wednesday. Hopefully it has not spread to other areas, as this form of cancer does not respond well to chemo or radiation - so surgery is pretty much the only option.  I am hoping against hope that it was caught early enough, and if removed, will not return. This is not her first rodeo with cancer, and she is fairly upbeat about it.  I'm still kind of stumbling around in a fog and am not sleeping very well.

... of opening up my DA to find a picture of someone's butt (or other obviously sexually-themed photos) on the front page. And before anyone asks - yes, I have my mature filters enabled. It's pretty darned obvious that most of those images are meant to provoke a sexual response and little else.