Dec 22 2007
Angiosarcoma of the liver
Terese for Pammy and the rest of us
(pammy’s liver cancer story please give your hugs)
I am reading this. My husband,45, has Angiosarcoma of the liver.
He never smoked, took drugs or worked in a factory that emitted chemicals. We have two children,13 and 9, and we just found out that the chemo that they are using is not working so they have switched him to a new drug. He just came home from the hospital and doesn’t have enough energy to make it up the stairs. I can’t stand to see him in this state and I fear he doesn’t have much time left. We just found out on Oct 31 that he has a liver mass so it has only been 8 weeks and already I can see how cancer causes such pain, pain that no person should have to endure. Keep us in your prayers.
Terese
Dear Terese,
All our prayers and hugs for you and your children.
Father most of the time didn’t have the energy to walk up the stairs either, so we put a hospital bed in the living room where he slept the last months of his life. Yet sometimes "father was gone" : just managed to walk the stairs on his own and sleep in his good old bed…
Pain: we opted for NO PAIN : meaning giving the pain medication every so many hours and progressively adding more medication when needed.
Hugs and prayers.
What is Angiosarcoma
A type of cancer that begins in the lining of blood vessels. This type of tumor tends to be aggressive, recur locally, and spread widely. It can originate anywhere in the body but is well known to arise in skin, soft tissue, liver, breast, spleen, bone, lung and heart.
Father’s metastatic liver cancer was called adenocarcinoma… all in all words without a real meaning for us, especially when you hear the word cancer and you don’t hear the word cure…
Drug and alcohol addiction
I always loved the idea to combat black ants with red ants: kind of let them fight it out amongst themselves!
