tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3353129101527546927.post7562466966632065140..comments2023-10-17T07:07:09.072-07:00Comments on Conversations With Dead People: Life newsSusanna Fraserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16149293228696867804noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3353129101527546927.post-68880477300342435232007-05-20T08:08:00.000-07:002007-05-20T08:08:00.000-07:00Thanks, Keira. And avoiding chemo is definitely a...Thanks, Keira. And avoiding chemo is definitely a quality-of-life issue for my mom. She's been through so much already this year, since in January before we had any inkling of the cancer she had hip replacement surgery. I think she just doesn't feel up to any other major medical interventions any time in the near future.Susanna Fraserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16149293228696867804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3353129101527546927.post-83592203731899567112007-05-19T15:44:00.001-07:002007-05-19T15:44:00.001-07:00And a huge congratulations to you on your new job....And a huge congratulations to you on your new job.Keira Soleorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14440213826734580889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3353129101527546927.post-2821033761647263952007-05-19T15:44:00.000-07:002007-05-19T15:44:00.000-07:00Susan, I'm so sorry to read about your mother. The...Susan, I'm so sorry to read about your mother. The chemotherapy (to undergo or not to) seems like a quality-of-life to her.<BR/><BR/>I've been following your Beau Monde messages with a lot of interest. Kudos on the great thoughts!Keira Soleorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14440213826734580889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3353129101527546927.post-1131928637654396082007-05-16T13:15:00.000-07:002007-05-16T13:15:00.000-07:00Cathy--Thanks for the good wishes and the complime...Cathy--<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the good wishes and the compliments on my blog. The LibraryThing tool is fairly simple--LibraryThing itself created the blog widget, and I just pasted into the set-up page on Blogger. One of these days I'll have my husband (a web developer/manager) set me up with something more personalized, but this blog suits my needs for now.<BR/><BR/>My mom has stage 3 adenocarcinoma. She was never a smoker herself, but had pretty extensive exposure to secondhand smoke, and lives in a part of the country with terrible air. Alabama has no emissions regulations for cars/trucks, and the valleys in and around Birmingham just trap the pollutants. She seems to be recovering well from the surgery, and the surgeon thinks he got all the cancer, but I don't know how long she can expect to go without recurrence if she doesn't have chemotherapy.Susanna Fraserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16149293228696867804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3353129101527546927.post-56877833330819879142007-05-16T11:40:00.000-07:002007-05-16T11:40:00.000-07:00Susan~I followed your link from the Beau Monde. I...Susan~<BR/><BR/>I followed your link from the Beau Monde. I am saddened to hear about your mother. I trained to be an OCN, but abandoned that career track when I nursed my own mother through pancreatic ca. I began to write romance fiction (as a diversion from grief) after that. When all was said and done I went to work in the pharmaceutical industry instead, and been here ever since (in Oncology, for the most part).<BR/>By mother, I mean my paternal grandmother, who raised me. Uh, I say this because you may have met my mother (bio-mom) at National in Atlanta (don't recall if you did).<BR/><BR/>Anyway, this is a nice blog. So clever to figure out how to get your LibraryThing books to list to the left. I'm completely lame in computer skillsets.<BR/><BR/>Good luck with your new job and your new wip.<BR/><BR/>CathyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com