Wow, that all sounds horrible. How is your wife doing? Did she go through all of that?
That’s the short version. She is seven years out of it now. They got it all. But her’s was found very early; it had spread to within a centimeter of an artery. We were a week or so from it being very, very bad.
About halfway through the chemo, she had about 10 inches of her bowel go necrotic. So that took another surgery and she had a bag for six months. They were able to reverse the osteomy, but when they went to close her they found that she had so many surgeries in such a short time they had to stitch in a mesh to put her back together. That was fun.
I can tell you I became a fan of “big medicine” and “Big Pharma” during those two years. Not a fan of the Covid stuff—that was real minor league stuff compared to what we were going through at the same time.