Metastatic liver cancer

We have quite a discussion going on in our family whether mom is depressed or not. According to my brother (married to a doctor, so very sensitive when you discuss medical matters…) mom is depressed.

According to my hubby who used to teach "how to give good therapy": mom is grieving, therefore not necessarily in a depression. Hubby says: "if you want to call it a depression, at least specify what kind of depression".
The best could be an exogenous depression, meaning the depression is caused by something outside of mom’s body: be it of course father who died of metastatic liver cancer.

As you can see: when hubby joins any discussion: he wants to hear all but generic words like "a depression".

You don’t go to a shop and ask for "clothes" either do you?

Unfortunately I am not a big football fan, and with hubby overseas, football is the last thing that would cross my mind these days.

NFL games for breast cancer awareness

Yet it seems that the NFL has dedicated the weekend of October 8 towards breast cancer awareness.

Which gave me the idea: why don’t people use NFL to promote a good cause each and every week? Yet NFL is not about charity, so I am dreaming out loud it seems.

On the other hand I am looking for games for kids in order to educate them about cancer. Did anybody came across any games related to cancer? If so, please leave a comment!

It has been ages since I posted an update from mom, and a surgery of the shoulder looks so minor when you read the story of Patti in one of the previous posts.

But no good is good news, and in the case of mom this is quite true.

Mom’s arm is getting better by the day and when brother visited mom last weekend, he said that both her arm and mom in general were in a good mood.

Now we all know mom does have mood swings since father died of metastatic liver cancer, but as far as we can judge, these mood swings are getting less.

Now we also know that when we get a bit too optimistic, something bad happens, so we will leave it for now…