About 6:30 PM Dr. Becker called with the pathology report. While not definitely conclusive, in all probability the cells contained BAC. I was referred to Dr. De Hoyos for the surgery.
Less than an hour later, my sister Helen called to let me know that Mother had died. She had been more or less unconscious for the last day. Cancer had killed her mother and it became the great fear in our family. At least she did not have to face my having cancer. But her death on top of the pathologist’s report was emotionally traumatic, to say the least.
I had been told that I could not travel by airplane with a partially collapsed lung.
