I started crying upon hearing this, when he gently admonished me that he would need me to be strong through this process.  I stopped crying immediately, stunned that this calm voice on the phone from Sydney belonged to a man that had just been told that he was infected with a horrific, in all likelihood terminal illness.  The only positive to come out of this diagnosis is that they were finally able to sort out the excruciating pain that he had been suffering up to that point.  The pain management protocol started enabled him to initially live a life much closer to that he enjoyed before. [Read more…]