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Tuesday, February 28, 2012

More on Mike Reiling

I have been communicating with Linda Reiling regarding his last few weeks alive. She said I could share this information with you. It should prove a good lesson for those of us still remaining to enjoy every moment. I can say that Mike was so looking forward to the reunion. He had shared that with me and Linda.

Linda wrote: He was diagnosed with an unspecific aggressive cancer and was given 2 - 7 years survival on December 21.  When I say aggressive, there was nothing on an xray on September 21 but on December 21 there were metastatic tumors on his spine, hip, lung, liver, and brain.  Since it was in his lung, they were treating it as non-small cell, multiple cell lung cancer. He was not a heavy smoker but had quit smoking 5 years ago.  He was very positive in his outlook and actually worked at the office on Thursday prior to his death and was out to lunch with friends on Friday. Always a man a great humor and love.  He was thankful for the life he had and told us his life was in God's hands.  He was admitted into the hospital on Sunday, January 15 with stomach pains and died at 6:00 am on January 17,  27 days after his diagnosis. 

We all miss him.  Hope you have a great reunion.  I was actually looking forward to meeting his friends from HS.


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