Comment from Kristen at Liver cancer is a killer, with answer from Metastatic Liver Cancer.
My dad was diagnosed with colon cancer on Feb.14th, 2007.
The doctor gave him 2 days to 2 weeks to live. He died on Feb. 16th, 2007.
The cancer had spread and was inoperable.
Nothing prepared my family for the shock of his death and we are still trying to deal with it.
The ironic thing is my father was scheduled for a colonoscopy the day after we took him to the ER.
The stuff he was supposed to drink for the colonoscopy made him ill, which is why we went to the ER where we found out why.
People say it gets easier, but for my family, it hasn’t yet.
Metastatic liver cancer reactions
Dear Kristen,
Accept our condolences and a big hug.
Like you say: it just doesn’t get any easier emotionally. Physically we don’t have to take care of father, but emotionally, each and every day I think of him. I try to work it of so my mind is occupied with other things. Which works fine until you go to sleep…
Father felt dizzy sometimes, and after 1001 doctor and hospital visit they took a picture of his liver which was filled with tiny tumors, worse than a raisin bread. He didn’t pass away 2 days later after his diagnosis, yet it is a very weird idea knowing that your days are numbered and you have really nothing in hand to fight it off.
I agree: we are not prepared for this at all. We do take life for granted, as we take our earth for granted as well.
One brother of father said: "we all have cancer in us, just with some of us it comes out sooner than later". Although this isn’t really so, his theory at least takes into concern that he can get cancer any day in his life. With all the amounts of cancers around us, it’s practically true what he says. (be informed: we are not doctors here, we are trying to carry on with our lives…)
The doctor that did the operation on my other dad (tumor in the colon) said: the only thing that beats cancer is your own body: so make sure you are as healthy as possible.
Live healthy, eat healthy, go easy on red meat and eat more tomatoes, more avocado, even more fresh fruit… all fine, but what about the air we breath in and the water we drink? And the pesticide residues in the vegetables we buy from the local grocery? How to live healthy is we can’t see the pesticide residue, the unhealthy particles in the air, unlike we can see the beginning of a cancer?
The questions are more than the answers… All we can agree on is that life will end sooner or later…
Whoever read this: feel free to give your feedback! Sooner or later you will read something that can set your mind more at ease than it is now…
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