Folks.
Gf's at a real treacherous spot in her health saga. I'll try to summarize.
She hasn't been out of the hospital longer than a few days since Feb, and yet they still haven't gotten her strong enough to do chemo. In the last couple of days her doctors have been rushing to start chemo immediately. They haven't disclosed full details to us (her family or me) at this time, but they started pushing it fervently after they completed an MRI, which is enough to suggest something pretty terrible.
Today we learned she's also apparently got autoimmune hepatitis, and what's left of her liver is attacking itself. They can treat this with a course of steroids.
But those same steroids could bolster the cancer, which has already been allowed to run rampant since March, and the course would run for months - by the way they're talking, wouldn't expect less than seven - giving it plenty of time to strengthen the thing that's already killing her.
Meanwhile if they don't treat it at all, she may not be able to process the chemo, which will destroy the remainder of her liver, which would also kill her.
So now the docs are trying to figure out how to not kill her with steroids and/or not kill her with chemo, and the clock's running out.
For my part, I'm going to soldier on as I can. I can't do much else, a fact I detest.
But I apologize in advance if I seem perhaps a tad off and/or quiet these next few days.