Re: cancer

Thanks, Karl, Bruce, Mike. I'm up at the hospital right now, and have
learned that the liver biopsy results won't be back for three days.
Arrrrgh.

I'll keep everyone posted. It's funny, when we first learned this
news, my immediate concern was posting to this list, and the X-Real
list. You guys really are some of my best friends.

Can't decide if that's awesome or really, really sad. ;^)



On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Karl Swenson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Wow.
>
> I...
>
> Wow, I really do not have any idea what to say.
>
> I love you brother, and wish I could do more to ease your confusion.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of pcg
> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 9:38 AM
> To: DADL (off topic)
> Subject: [DADL-OT] cancer
>
> My dad went into the hospital night before last, complaining of
> intense pain in his neck. Long story short, after many tests, scans,
> biopsies, the report is that he is "full of cancer." Further tests
> tomorrow will provide a more complete picture, and hopefully a
> prognosis and treatment plan. Right now problem areas include
> unidentified masses along his spine, spots on his liver, and abnormal
> growths on his colon. They don't know if this is several isolated
> pockets, or a single cancer that has metastisized.
>
> Kind of stunned right now, and so not ready for this. He just came
> through his kidney transplant with flying colors a few months ago. How
> they managed to miss this during the comprehensive pre-op testing is
> beyond me. For the last two years, I've watched him suffer through
> dialysis, and the long process of trying to find a suitable kidney
> donor. After the surgery was a success, we all got to breathe easily
> for the first time in a long time. Dad looked and felt so much better,
> was gaining energy every day and laughing for the first time in a long
> time. He got off disability and recently began looking for a new
> career. Now this.
>
> Dad is in some kind of denial, refusing to hear any report that is
> "not the Lord's." The complete story about his condition is still
> unclear, because when the doctor's were explaining, he "only listened
> to about every third word," and when they were finished delivering his
> intitial diagnosis, he evidently asked, "Are you finished? Because I
> don't care about any of this." He says his life is the Lord's, not the
> doctors', and whatever they have to tell him is irrelevant. It's
> frustrating.
>
> I feel like I'm walking around in a fog today. Final tests should be
> back sometime this afternoon, and after work my brother and I will be
> going to the hospital to talk to the doctors ourselves.
>
> I want to ask for prayers, but I feel hypocritical doing so, because I
> don't even know if I believe in prayer any more. I just wanna wake up.
>
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