**tissue alert** VERY heartwarming

[DianaB]

Originally Posted by Janet

Diana, that is so sad...I hate the thought of someone giving up.

He found out several years ago that he had prostate cancer but decided to not do anything about it. I was really surprised that the family let him do that but it wasn't my decision. This last year he's been having a lot of trouble and has been in and out of the hospital several times. We finally found out that his problems were connected to the prostate cancer. His daughter finally talked him into having a test and the cancer is now in his bones and he's in pain but there's things that can be done to make things better for himself but he doesn't want to do anything about it. The kids finally talked him into going to a doctor yesterday and he's going to be taking some medicine and may have surgery in the future. He's always been so healthy that I think all of this has him depressed and he talks about dying. He makes sure that his life insurance is paid every year even though it's hard to come up with the money to pay for it because he is determined to leave something to his kids. (He's lost all of his farm ground because of the high interest rates and poor money management in the 1980's but he tried to hang on to all the ground until recently.) He's a really great father and grandfather and it's so hard to see him like this.