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Your Mom
Hi Vicky;
I agree with Chirli to give your mom those little special things, especially those that involve touch. A foot massage is awesome and also massaging the neck and back. Touch will bring a special connection to your mom that will lift her spirits to a feeling that cannot often be described.
On the other hand when I talk to other patients in the waiting room at the Oncology treatment centre to encourage them I know by intuition when to keep quiet.
I visited a chronically ill man at the nursing home every Sunday for a year. There wasn't a lot of touching but just to sit with him for 30 minutes and not really say a lot meant to him that someone cared and he was not abandoned.
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Wife 63, June 2010 MDS (refr anemia - excess blasts type-2) PLTs 11,000/μl with giant forms 2 TF/wk. Hgb kept at 80g/l with 1TF per 2 weeks. 9% blasts 2 cytogenic abnormalities del(5)(q22q35) + inv(20)(p11.23q11.21) 3 cycles Vidaza no effect. June 2011 to AML WBC to 67 blasts and Aur rods in blood.
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