Thanks DocJohn, j_belle, kitty and Darkeyes for your thoughts, ideas, and prayers. They are immensely appreciated.

As for the pain, she was only given a small amount of painkillers by one of the doctors and is supposed to go back to her regular MD again. Then she was given a treatment to reduce the pain and that treatment made it worse so she discontinued it. Can't blame her. I tried to encourage her to ask her doctor for something else for the pain. We discussed some medicines, too. I feel she needs a second opinion on things, too, because some tests were fouled up and no real opinion was diagnosed on some of the pain. But she does have the cancer diagnoses none-the-less. She does not like going to doctors much either but at least she is going still.

Sorry to hear about your father Darkeyes. It's hard to see people deteriorating for sure.

Thanks again everyone. CQ

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