Beau- I really empathize. I also lost my Dad about ten years ago. My Mom's in fairly good shape for being 80, but not a day goes by that I don't worry. Even with my Mom doing well, it's hard for me to deal with the idea of my parents mortality.

Help your brother to continue the healing in his relationship with your Mom. This would be a tremendous help to her, I'm sure, as well as to him. The treatment of cancer often has amazing results these days. It sounds as though the tumors were found early, which often dramatically improves the outcome.

My thoughts and prayers are with you all. Maybe let your Mom know that you have this tremendous resource of people from around the world pulling for her. That thought would be a big comfort to me. Please, keep us informed, we'll be thinking of you all. Jay