Hi, Ardith...

AH>   Absolutely!  Recommended reading, BTW... LOVE, MEDICINE & MIRACLES
AH>by Dr. Bernie Siegel.  That's where we got the name for the SURVIVOR
AH>echo....

  Sorry I didn't reply sooner. My Mom got my Dad home from the
hospital...but as with my late grandmother, his anxiety caused breathing
problems, so she had to rush him back to the emergency room. He is home
now, but hasn't had many "good days" since they discovered the cancer.

  The thing is, he has been almost constantly in a state of
nausea...even though he has medicine for it. Thankfully, my brother and
his fiance' aren't as squeamish as I am (he hunts and cleans his own
deer, etc., and she has nursing experience). Unlike me, where I see,
hear, or smell someone vomiting, I will violently do likewise within 15
seconds. So, I have not seen my Dad since he left to go into the
hospital, but have talked to him a few times. He is still obviously
depressed, as noted earlier.

  My wife and I talked to a veterinary technician the other day (we had
to get some medicine for our dachshund)...and have talked to various
nurses recently. These, along with some psychology professors at the
local college, have "sympathy sickness" as I do...and vomiting is where
all of them draw the line. So, if these "professionals" have trouble,
what does that say for me?? That's an issue of "survival" unto itself.

Daryl

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