Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Bad News
Daddy- We got the worse news today from the doctor. He says that you bone scans and biopsy came back and you do in fact have Leukemia on top of the liver cancer. We also found out that the chemo pill you have been on since May has stopped working. We have to go back to the cancer today at 3.Well you and Nana I can't come with you and I feel horrible about not being able to come. They are going to start this round of radiation. They are also talking about a possible port and doing chemo that way. You and Nana said you would call and tell me after you see the doctor and they start the new therapy. I love you Daddy and YOU WILL BEAT THIS. You are the strongest person I know. I love you so much.
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Im so sorry about your daddy. praying for him! God can do amazing miracles!
ReplyDeleteI don't tell many people this but Ill tell you to encourage your heart. When I was around 12 my dad had to have surgery on his arm for a ripped bicep. After the surgery, everything went haywire, and he developed a disease called reflex sympathetic dystrophy otherwise known as rsd. basically rsd starts in one area, and will spread to your entire body and cause you to feel like you are on fire all the time in every area that it spreads, even your hair folicles. there is no cure, they don't know what causes it, and there are only tests and experiments they do to try and help you deal with it. we tried everything, went to many different doctors with my dad and over the course of the next 3 years, he got sicker and sicker until he couldn't even move. we also found out he had lyme disease that he had gotten on a trip to africa, as well as hepatitis A which comes from contaminated food and water. He had also gotten this while in africa and it was very advanced and with everything else he had, it was causing his liver to just go down the drain very quickly. they also tested him positive for one other disease that has a rate of about 5-10 year life span, but I can't remember the name.
Anyways, we found a doctor in pittsburgh who had found results with rsd patients by putting a bard port in next to their heart and giving them intravenous injections every day, twice a day. They helped, a little bit and at least made his life livable. I think they were just trying to make him comfortable until all the diseases took him... and they trained us how to do the injections so our family could go home
On july 3, 2005, my dad was on our couch, having a decent day. the burning hadn't started yet and he was playing a board game with my sisters. he suddenly got very hot and sweaty and had trouble breathing. it was ok at first but then we took his temp and it went from 101, to 103, to 106.7. He turned blue in the face and couldn't breathe. we called 911, and they took him to the hospital, and prepared our fmaily for him not living... he had contracted sepsis, a blood infection, and he was dying. there are many types of sepsis but the one he had was very rare and very hard to get rid of. it has a mortality rate of over 97%. Basically, sepsis thickens your blood to the point it can't carry oxygen, and makes it where your organs cannot get oxygen and they slowly die, suffocating you as you cant get air. since it takes a few days usually to find out the type of sepsis bacteria the patient has, the patients die because they try out different antibiotics but they aren't usually the right ones in time to save them. for some reason, though my dads was a very rare bacteria and very deadly, everything they tried on him... worked. and it slowly went away. they did surgery to remove the port which they said had caused the sepsis, and he started recovering. they told us most likely he would have permanent brain damage, liver damage, among other things from the fever and that it was a miracle he had made it this far... but we shouldn't expect him to live mroe than a few years. my dad continued to impress them and when they tested all of his organs... he was completely healthy. they then got all of his records on all of the diseases he had, to try and see what they could do for him. they took his blood and ran it through bloodwork 3 times.
ReplyDeleteeverything was gone.
the hep a
the lyme disease
the rsd
all were gone. and even the "footprints" and markers that people with these diseases have in their blood... were gone. he was completely healed, no damage, no lasting problems. it was a miracle and no one could explain it. every doctor we saw that wanted to check him out and see for themselves said he should have died. he was a walking miracle. a 22 year old guy had died two weeks before from a severe case of the same sepsis type, yet he was completely healthy besides it, unlike my dad whos immune system was comprimised. my dad is healthy as can be at 53 years old now and has 3 grandchildren, 2 from my brother and one from me, and he climbs mountains, skis all over the world, travles, dives, and everything you can imagine.
there are miracles, and God can do amazing things, don't stop fighting, because even in the worst situations, doctors don't decide when man dies, God does, and God can heal whenever he wants to. :)
sorry my comment was so long, i just really hope that encourages you.
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing. It helps and I am hoping/praying for a miracle. I am glad your dad got his miracle.
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