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Mom was doing okay this past week, she wasn't</FONT></DIV>
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as much. She was getting comfort from the</FONT></DIV>
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howliday cards because people were addressing</FONT></DIV>
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Sadie and/or Mandy ATB or sending notes that</FONT></DIV>
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consoling her UNTIL today. She was going</FONT></DIV>
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thru our cabinet & came across Mandy's & Sadie's</FONT></DIV>
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Christmas scarves. I don't have one since</FONT></DIV>
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they were a gift & I wasn't even thought of yet. Then</FONT></DIV>
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mom got Sadie's histopathology report:</FONT></DIV>
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The spleen lesion received with this accession has</FONT></DIV>
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variable appearance in various areas of the mass. </FONT></DIV>
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A major portion of the mass is comprised of area of</FONT></DIV>
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well circumscribed hematoma. The mast also has</FONT></DIV>
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sites of proliferation of poorly differentiated, spindyloid</FONT></DIV>
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cells in haphazard arrangement or lack thereof. Among</FONT></DIV>
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the more densely cellular areas, mitotic activity is high</FONT></DIV>
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& many figures are bizarre. The mass is poorly </FONT></DIV>
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differentiated soft tissue sarcoma. Morphology of</FONT></DIV>
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neoplasia is suggestive of high malignant potential.</FONT></DIV>
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(now do we all know what that means?)</FONT></DIV>
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Someone told mom that maybe it was a blessing that</FONT></DIV>
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Sadie went now but mom would rather have helped her</FONT></DIV>
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to the bridge then to have her suffer with the surgery &</FONT></DIV>
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maybe that's why Sadie hasn't shown mom a sign yet.</FONT></DIV>
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Not only that, mom realized that on Christmas Eve it</FONT></DIV>
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will be one month since Sadie left.</FONT></DIV>
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On top of that today Saturday December 20 is Sadie's</FONT></DIV>
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day. The border is in purple, our favorite color.</FONT></DIV>
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Here Sadie was trying to get me some presents since</FONT></DIV>
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she didn't play too much with them anymore but mom</FONT></DIV>
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said I will have to settle for the couple I got for my</FONT></DIV>
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birthday from the droolers.</FONT></DIV>
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So mom is back to crying all day again & probably will</FONT></DIV>
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for the next week.
Timing</FONT></DIV>
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Penny of Indiana</FONT></DIV>
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