[Oe List ...] Update on Fred and Jann

[Isobel & Jim Bishop]

Dear Jann and Fred and family,
Thank you for sharing your journey of  the spirit at this precious time.
It is a deep privilege and honour to walk nearby you.
In peace and love,
Isobel Bishop.

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Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 3:43 AM
Subject: [Oe List ...] Update on Fred and Jann


> Dear Community of Caring,
>
> Fred and I appreciate so much your thoughts, prayers and messages of 
> support.
> The jokes are especially helpful.  My favorite is an alligator couple
> sitting in the doctor's office.  The wife is blushing as the husband says, 
> "I
> didn't say I had ED.  I said REPTILE DYSFUNCTION!"  I think that might 
> explain all
> our human problems.
>
> We were happy that his cardiologist report was good.  His lungs are not in
> very good shape, so we are so grateful the cancer cells didn't invade 
> there, as
> would have been expected, according to our primary care doctor.
>
> He is seeing the same oncologist that I had for lymphoma, though we will
> consult two other people this month.  Fred has had 5 days of taking a new 
> chemo
> drug, sutent, a "multi-kinase enzyme inhibitor."  It's designed to cut off
> nutrients to the tumors.  So far, he hasn't noticed any side effects.  He 
> continues
> to have very low energy, which is one side effect listed, but isn't new.
>
> This drug is covered by our Medicare/AARP prescription drug insurance.
> That's the good news.  The other news is that our copay for 28 pills was 
> $2159.
> That put us into the "doughnut hole," where we pay full cost for 
> everything
> until our out-of-pocket drug costs reach $3850.  After that, we'll pay 5% 
> copay.
> (It's called "catastrophic coverage.")
>
> This expense makes traveling to Germany for really cutting-edge cancer
> treatment seem not so expensive.  We're praying about that.
>
> I'm rewriting my dissertation on my own cancer experience, which I called
> "Dark Passage, Illness as Initiation."  I'm finding this new passage to be 
> a
> whole new level of what St. Teresa of Avila called the Interior Castle. 
> It comes
> to me more as a cave, and there is so much to explore.  (By the way, 
> Caroline
> Myss' book,  ENTERING THE CASTLE, is very helpful to me at this time.)
>
> We are being supported by hosts of ----- what?  Must be angels.  We have 
> such
> a powerful presence surrounding us.  Must be our Lord, Jesus the Christ. 
> I
> gave Fred a massage Sunday afternoon, listening to the Dalai Lama chant. 
> What
> an empowering blessing.  May we all be so blessed for our passage in this
> life, brief as it is bound to be.
>
> Love, grace and peace,
> Jann <BR><BR><BR>**************************************<BR> See what's 
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