An Answered Prayer
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We packed some things and drove to the hospital. It was a very quiet ride. I couldn’t help but cry the whole way. Bob held my hand but there were no words between us on this ride. They took Bob straight to a room. There were about 5 tumors in Bob’s brain. One was in the right temporal lobe and was rather large. It was leaking blood. I had been noticing a bit of food on the left side of his mouth and he was beginning to walk with a bit of a slide to his left foot. It was very slight. No one else would have noticed I don’t think.
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About the Book
This book is about a couple’s struggle with melanoma stage IV cancer. Bob’s cancer was discovered during an unrelated chest x-ray looking for signs of work-related mesophilioma. Unable to do a biopsy, he had to have two suspicious spots removed from his right lung. In January of 2012, after the thoracic surgery, we were given the news that Bob’s spots were melanoma. We naively assumed they had caught it early since Bob had no symptoms or discomfort, but once melanoma shows up inside the body, it is stage IV. I have written about the year we lived with the news and the complications of cancer until Bob’s death in 2013.
About the Author
Sheila Yow Isenhour, was born in Concord, North Carolina. She graduated from Northwest Cabarrus High School in 1972 and have an associate degree in human services from Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte. For 30 or more years, she worked with the elderly as an Activities professional. The last 8 years, she worked for Catawba County Schools as an Exceptional Children’s Teacher’s assistant. She has two children: Ben and Elizabeth; their spouses are Amanda and Antonio. She has since retired to writing, music, painting and playing with her two grandchildren, Aliyah and Lydia.