I danced at my son's wedding last night. We danced to Stand By Me, each of us singing along as we danced.
Just four days ago, it looked like we wouldn't get to Hamilton's wedding in northern Mississippi. I went into the ER of our local community hospital in Hudson, NY, early Tuesday morning with what I thought was food poisoning and back pain. Because of the back pain and the lack of other food poisoning symptoms, the ER doc suspected kidney stones & ordered a CT scan.
But instead of kidney stones, it showed a mass on the adrenal gland that had some bleeding. A chest x-ray later in the morning turned up a spot on the lung.
From food poisoning to lung cancer in a few hours was a stunner. The world just stopped for my husband, Tony, and me. Joining us as the news unfolded was my stepson, Chris, who is the hospice case manager at this hospital. He sees the end of this diagnosis every day and I think he had a hard time not going there in his mind.
