It's taken me two days for this news to sink in. My Aunt Rosemary's Pet scan shows that her cancer has spread to her right lung and there is radio-tracer uptake corresponding to the right tongue base and right tonsil. These areas are opposite her original problematic side. She's scheduled to see a Pulmonary specialist tomorrow, but her surgeon has already told them that the tongue/jaw/gland surgery scheduled for later this month will do her no good. She's been offered palliative chemo/radiation, but she says she doesn't want any more of any of this. Of course we won't know for sure until they biopsy her lung next week but it looks pretty damned bad or else the surgeon wouldn't have said all this. Meanwhile the tumor under her jawbone is growing larger and is collecting fluid..... Frankly, I don't even know that she'll consent to the lung biopsy at this point. I know she's tired and fed up. This time, I can't bring myself to pressuring her.....

I'll keep everyone posted.