Mark,

Your message gave me a good laugh. Having a beer while watching your wife mow the lawn, that's funny stuff. Sounds like my hubby.

You are right about the opposite; I think if a Doc said "cancer" and then it wasn't, I'd have been upset about that too. In fact, when my Dentist said cancer I was so afraid. I started shaking like crazy. And then when I got to the OS and she reassured me, I was kind of angry with the Dentist for suggesting such a thing. I thought "how dare he say Cancer, when according to the OS, it so clearly is not Cancer?" I guess if I would have heard something in the middle, it would have been better for me. And the other thing was the length of time between biopsy and results. It was more than two weeks. I started to get the feeling that no news was good news. Certainly if I haven't heard anything yet, it isn't anything bad. Of course, everybody else reassures you that this is the case. I have a coworker that is a 2 time stomach cancer survivor. She told me that if it were cancer, I'd have heard in a couple of days. If they suspect cancer, she said, they put a rush on it. But my OS didn't suspect cancer. I guess it's truly water under the bridge now. It truly didn't affect my care. I am getting the help I need and that is the important part.

Thanks for your support. Oh, and for giving me my morning chuckle.

Have a great day!