My mother, Valerie, aged 88, has stomach cancer (diagnosis just
confirmed) which explains why she's been wasting away lately. Next
Wednesday she has a full series of scans to establish how far and how
wide it's gone & later we should learn whether she has day, weeks or
months left.

She's being very brave and positive about this, much better than me in
fact - now she's facing something fatal all the usual complaints &
gripes about hip, knee, bowels, etc., etc., have stopped. Which is
great but I'd rather it was for a different reason.

So if you have any spare purrs this Wednesday for her to be OK through
the travel & scanning process and for the results to show she has at
least a few months left, I'd sure appreciate it. For her to reach her
89th Birthday on 30th March while still relatively pain-free would be
a great result.

Blanket purrs back to everyone who needs them - I shan't be able to
post individually for a while as there's much to be sorted. She hasn't
even made a will yet as the (like many) clearly expected to be around
for ever :)

Purrs
Gordon & the FF