Goodbye Righty!

Today's the day we say goodbye to Righty. It's easy, and it's hard, to say goodbye.

Easy to say goodbye, hoping that with that tissue goes the cancer and the fear that this disease will cut short the time Venita and Jim will have together. It's already diminished the quality of their time together, having brought many moments of terror in the past 3 1/2 months. But it also has improved their relationship, as they work together to step through this treatment process.

Hard to sy goodbye, not that Venita or Jim have ever defined Venita by her sexual body parts, but once you've got any "normal and customary" body part, it's had to see it go. Won't the loss of any body part put the whole balance of the body out of whack?

Complications aside, twelve hours from now Venita should be out of surgery. Today's gift would be a finding of minimal lymph node involvement. We have little expectation of that outcome, but we can always hope/wish/concentrate on/pray for that miracle.