My leukemia's back.

[N F C]

Good morning

Breakfast looks good @getaclue

 

[getaclue]

Good morning

Breakfast looks good @getaclue

I thought so too. I must be hungry this morning.

 

[sourland]

Good morning, Team Rachel. Hope that all is good in your worlds.

 

[Alaskan]

Good morning Team Rachael!
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wowsers does that look tasty!

 

[Alaskan]

by the by.....

my dad was diagnosed with cancer at the base of the tongue...was it 5 years back now? Anyway, he had super high radiation and chemo, which just about did him in. He was on a feeding tube for maybe 6 months. ... that cancer went away, but getting him to actually do his occupational therapy, eat right, and exercise has been just. .... ..well. ....torturous.

He has had ups and downs, some tines bed ridden and sometimes semi-functional to mostly functional. He is a professor and keeps trying to teach.. .

anyway....

So, this fall he was doing better again, still not taking care of himself like he should (can NOT get that man to eat right).

And, he went in for another cancer check, and this one was bad.

They scoped his throat, and took biopsies all of the way down, 2 came back positive for cancer.

My folks go back in on Friday to get the rest of the info as well as prognosis.

If this is a new cancer, and if we got it at the earliest stage, then there is a 40% survival rate. If this is a matastasies from the original cancer then ..well...very bad.

I dunno.

This entire ride has been difficult for me. The chemo and radiation turned my dad into...well...not my dad.

My dad is alive, but I have missed him for years... and I mean personality, not the being feeble part.

Just thought that this was a good place to vent.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Just thought that this was a good place to vent.

very sorry that you are going through this i truly hope that it is an easier cancer and caught early

 

[N F C]

@Alaskan so sorry for all that you are going through, for you and your dad and the rest of the family. That has to be very hard to deal with.

This is the perfect place to vent, know that you & your family will be in a lot of thoughts and prayers. Keep us posted, ok?

 

[Alaskan]

thanks...means a great deal to me

 

[ronott1]

I remember posts about your Dad on a different thread. Mouth and throat cancer is a bad one.

Sorry about the new issues!


Venting is fine here!

 

[Alaskan]

thanks. I had forgotten, but the cancer at the base of the tongue was a stage 4.

I was also reminded that it has been 5 years since he was diagnosed.