Raining buckets
A couple of months ago dad got the news that the cancerous tumor was gone from his lung and though he evidently still had cancer somehow in his system, don't worry about it.
Yeah. Sure.
At the end of October dad fell while trying to dance and started to hurt later that evening and was taken to the ER where they determined that he'd probably fractured a couple of vertebrae in his tailbone, so he was put back into a wheelchair while he healed. But the pain remained the same and wasn't getting any better, so they did an MRI last week, the day before Thanksgiving. He got the results this past Tuesday.
Remember that cancer they told him to not worry about? It's in his spine.
They haven't said what the next step is going to be as of yet. Lung cancer is one of the worse cancers to mestasize and from what I've learned, once it gets into your bones and your spine, you may as well hang up your hat. In fact, most of what I've searched give it a morbidity rate of 3-6 months to 2 years, to the rare case (10%) of surviving 5-10 years. I hate learning such things, as I feel as if I'm this little harbinger of doom, much like a crow that you see out your window.
So even though we recently (as in this month only) got it to where we would only go up to Denton every other week, if we have to start this again of rushing to the hospital, etc., it looks like we're starting up again. We'll find out more tomorrow and can actually talk to dad face-to-face instead of over the phone.
I can only figure that I'm paying karma off at an accelerated rate.<-lj-cut>
Yeah. Sure.
At the end of October dad fell while trying to dance and started to hurt later that evening and was taken to the ER where they determined that he'd probably fractured a couple of vertebrae in his tailbone, so he was put back into a wheelchair while he healed. But the pain remained the same and wasn't getting any better, so they did an MRI last week, the day before Thanksgiving. He got the results this past Tuesday.
Remember that cancer they told him to not worry about? It's in his spine.
They haven't said what the next step is going to be as of yet. Lung cancer is one of the worse cancers to mestasize and from what I've learned, once it gets into your bones and your spine, you may as well hang up your hat. In fact, most of what I've searched give it a morbidity rate of 3-6 months to 2 years, to the rare case (10%) of surviving 5-10 years. I hate learning such things, as I feel as if I'm this little harbinger of doom, much like a crow that you see out your window.
So even though we recently (as in this month only) got it to where we would only go up to Denton every other week, if we have to start this again of rushing to the hospital, etc., it looks like we're starting up again. We'll find out more tomorrow and can actually talk to dad face-to-face instead of over the phone.
I can only figure that I'm paying karma off at an accelerated rate.<-lj-cut>