telling

We told our son and his wife two nights ago. We wanted to wait until after this Saturday, after the baby's baptism, so I emailed my son and asked if we could meet on Sunday. He knew something was wrong and didn't want to wait and asked if we could get together on Wednesday evening. We decided on a restaurant, but the more I thought about it, the more I knew that telling someone bad news at a restaurant was not a good plan. I asked if we could meet at their home and they were in agreement.

They took the news as well as anyone could. It was good to have the distraction of their 6 month old baby. I guess after we left, there were a lot of tears that were shed.

There are still many tears shed here. We found out yesterday that it is definitely a type of B-cell lymphoma, and which one is too hard to call at this point. Gary thinks he is in stage 3, and why he feels that, I don't know.

I called my brother yesterday and told him. His wife has cancer and he was very understanding about it.

We told our close friends, Diane and Bill last night and they took it okay. They said they loved us and would do anything to help. Bill says he just feels he is a match for a bone marrow biopsy... let's hope it doesn't get to that.