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I am soo sorry to hear about your father-in-law...
all of your families are in my thoughts and prayers.
3 months ago, my mom was diagnonsed with colon, liver, and lung cancer. One of her diabetic meds. had masked all the symptoms and she had not had a colonospy (sp) in about 7 years. She is 57 years old and they believe that she has been walking around with this for about 3 years. Her meds. made all of her lab results come back normal and her symptoms were the same as the side effects of the drug.
She has been on IV chemo and takes 2 doses of oral chemo for 21 days and then 7 days off. It is rough, there is no getting around that. She also goes in for iron infusions, platelet replacements, shots, and how knows what else. There is not a day or night that I do not pray that we will all get through this. She is very determined that she will do what it takes. If it were not for the chemo, they said we would have around 4-6 months with her. Her cancer counts continue to drop after every round. Her dr. is very hopeful and optimisitc. There days that she does suffer, she is tired, and she feels like crap....but for every day that she feels like that, there is a day were she shops, cleans, gardens, and lives normally. We pray that one day, all of her days will be like that.
My grandfather was diagnosed with pancratic cancer, refused all treatment and was gone with weeks.
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