Status update. Three years since my feeding tube was inserted.

[DFW]

31. Sounds like you were in good hands, indeed

My wife lucked out here when she got "the murderer," as she was sent to the top specialist as soon as the diagnosis was in. Medical care is not "free" here in Germany, and she was 64 at the time, so her government-guaranteed medical insurance hadn't kicked in yet, but I had been paying for her medical insurance since she retired (about €500 a month, or around $600, as I remember), and that covered everything, even including a four week stay at a rehab spa in the Black Forest. Now that she is over 65, the German version of Medicare has relieved me of the monthly payments, though we are perfectly fine if she is spared a third round of cancer. I'm probably next, since both my parents had it, and so did ALL of their siblings. I already lost a cousin to glioblastoma 25 years ago. I'm not looking forward to it. Though I pay income taxes in Germany, I get no medical insurance at all, and no pension, so when it hits me, I have to take the first plane home to get treated. It's just an 11 hour nonstop to Dallas from Frankfurt or Paris, so I can probably handle it.