My Dad has Anemia

Thanks Gooch.

Everything is going well. He is still on the 7 day induction phase for his chemo, but he is doing great. The doctors were surprised at how well his body was taking it. Only the first day was he pale and weak, and after that he felt strong and felt alright. Most of the bad cells have been killed as well.


You know, you never think this kind of thing can happen to you or a close one. 1 week, everything is fine. The next week our whole life gets turned upside down. But I guess that's life, you just have to be ready for whats going to get thrown at you.
 
Phate89 said:
Thanks Gooch.

Everything is going well. He is still on the 7 day induction phase for his chemo, but he is doing great. The doctors were surprised at how well his body was taking it. Only the first day was he pale and weak, and after that he felt strong and felt alright. Most of the bad cells have been killed as well.


You know, you never think this kind of thing can happen to you or a close one. 1 week, everything is fine. The next week our whole life gets turned upside down. But I guess that's life, you just have to be ready for whats going to get thrown at you.
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Hang in there Phate, sounds like your father has some good doctors taking care of him. Good to hear he is feeling stronger already. Hope things continue to get better for all of you!

take care
Diane
 
good to hear he is doing well, Phate! Yeah, it must be absolutely insane! My neighbours from back hom (I'm studying out of my home town now) just figured out that the father had cancer.. it's so weird, it's happening all around, but you don't think it can happen to you until it actually does.
 
it's so weird, it's happening all around, but you don't think it can happen to you until it actually does
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.Dude. In the month of August I've known of 5-6 people close to our family that got diagnosed with some type of cancer.

My dad's cousin got breast cancer a couple weeks before my dad got diagnosed
Then a couple other "far" relatives got colon cancer,
and a couple other farther in family chain got diagnosed in the month of august as well.

coincidence...or does cancer just like the month of August
 
Good to hear he's coping well. I have absolutely no knowledge of Leukemia but a kid in my class had it once. It took a while to treat (about a year as I remember) but the kid made a full recovery so it doesn't have to turn out for the worst. He grew up to be an annoying little bastard :)
 
Phate89 said:
.Dude. In the month of August I've known of 5-6 people close to our family that got diagnosed with some type of cancer.

My dad's cousin got breast cancer a couple weeks before my dad got diagnosed
Then a couple other "far" relatives got colon cancer,
and a couple other farther in family chain got diagnosed in the month of august as well.

coincidence...or does cancer just like the month of August
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I think someone close to you getting diagnosed probably makes a lot of people get themselves checked out.

There was an ad campaign in the UK featuring a comic called Bob Monkhouse who died of prostate cancer. He filmed this whole campaign urging people to get themselves checked out for cancer in secret and straight after he died the campaign was launched and featured him in a graveyard saying stuff like 'I'm dead now, but I want to pass on a message' and stuff like that. After that campaign the number of people being successfully diagnosed and treated shot up

Take this as a sign to get yourself a full MOT and check from pre-cancerous cells and stuff
 
Update:

For the last 3 years my dad has been in and out of the hospital. After 35 days of chemo therapy the cancer cells went into remission. 6 months later the cancer cells came back. He went through another couple rounds of chemotherapy and the doctors performed a bone marrow transfer. It was successful.

After the bone marrow operation, we all thought everything would work out; only problem was that his immune system was rejecting foreign dna. His immune system was reduced to something of a 1 week old and since then he's been fighting for his life. Doctors were giving him every type of antibiotic they can think of to keep him alive while his body adjusts to the new bone marrow. During that same time he somehow got a virus and his body could not fight it.

At one point he had a 10% survival chance. I remember seeing him during fathers day of this year, and it was one of the worst days of my life. He looked dead. Like a skeleton. His eyes were sunken in his face and he did not have the energy to keep his head up. That day I went home, and it was the first time as a man I cried thinking my dad was going to die.

Soon after that the doctors started giving him a different round of antibiotics and medicines and his body was reacting favorably to it. Week after week he had less liquid stool. His energy levels were slowly starting to return. At the moment he is not 100%, we are still taking it week by week. He needs to go to physical rehab and get back use of his legs, because so many months of being bed ridden have rotted his muscles.

But its a positive step forward and everything is pointing that with time he will be just fine.
 
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That must have been so awful. I had to see my nan slowly die in hospital this year and you feel so helpless. It must be a harder when it's your dad, I'm so glad it's working out well now
 
That's a very moving story. I really hope everything turns out OK! I can't even imagine having to go through that with my dad.
 
Things were very positive until he was affected by graph versus hosts disease, which is common in cancer survivors. Starting in September he got weaker again due to the graph versus host and his other organs were showing problems as well.

After that incident there was problem after problem. Once one infection was cleared, another was discovered.

In the beginning of November his body was attacked by multiple infections targeting different organs at once. His body could not handle it and he was put on life support.

His immune system was too weak, and with every infection that the doctors would try to treat the other infections will get even worse or a new one would pop up.

My father passed away November 20th, 2010. The doctors said once the blood pressure medicine was taken off he would pass within minutes. He lasted 3 hours.

I was not able to say any last words, as he was heavily sedated so he did not feel any pain. The most I could do was spend the last two days he had next to him holding his hand.

I will never in my life forget the color of his hands as he was passing or the expression of his slightly open eyes. I will never forget looking down at my father, then looking at his heart rate monitor to see it flat line, then look back down at my father who is no longer there.

The last time I was able to speak to my father was before his colostomy and I was teary eyed and I told him that I loved him, and he told me he loved me too.

I'm sorry if this last post didn't include any more details but it is extremely hard for me tow rite this and there are already tears running down my face. I just wanted to give this thread some closure.
 
I'm sorry to hear about your loss phate. Time mends these types of wounds, so try to keep moving forward past this hurdle in life.
 
Sorry but I've only just read this, so sorry to hear such bad news Phate, I hope you're doing well now
 
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