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I know that there are lot of smoke and prayer requests going on in the Cantina right now, but if you fine folks could spare a little more for my father-in-law I would appreciate it very much.
My FIL is currently battling liver cancer. Actually, he's been fighting cancer for the better part of 6 years. It started in his colon, they got that. But they missed it when it set in his liver. Well, after much prayer, a very successful chemo program, and a record microablasion (sp?) he was doing fine managing the cancer cell count with oral chemo. However, his doctors have seen a few spots in his lungs that they thought might be scar tissue start to show some activity. They put him back on a heavy treatment.
It's whiped him out, as to be expected. However, it has done TOO good of a job killing things and an infection of a type of fungus normally present on the skin has cause my FIL to break out in a sort of rash. To complicate things to the utmost degree, the topical cream to combat this infection has caused very accute sensory problems in which his skin screams in pain when you touch any hair on his body. To add insult to injury, SOMETHING is causing him to hear and see very vivid hallucinations. He sometimes hears and sees the toilet water running like it was broken..even though it is not. He also sees people in the night. Some he says are funny and happy, some are not so nice to look at, sometimes he sees angels float by.
This is really worrying my MIL and wife, to be sure. My FIL is a very sharp and educated man. He was a chemical engineer for GE for 30 years (which we suspect is how he contracted his cancer to begin with). He's only 62 and acting loopy is NOT in his very scientific nature.
My wife is doing her best to be strong. She's a very emotional person, but she grinding through this, and her steadfast strength is amazing to me. My BIL does not handle such stress very well, so she knows she's got to be the one that is tough (totally not her character). Everyone is doing all that they can do, but it's frustrating.
If you fine folks could spare a little smoke or a thought or prayer, I would ever so much appreciate it. Prayer got him to the point that he was able to live a very normal active life for a couple of years. Now we have another battle to face.
Thanks so much,
Jake
My FIL is currently battling liver cancer. Actually, he's been fighting cancer for the better part of 6 years. It started in his colon, they got that. But they missed it when it set in his liver. Well, after much prayer, a very successful chemo program, and a record microablasion (sp?) he was doing fine managing the cancer cell count with oral chemo. However, his doctors have seen a few spots in his lungs that they thought might be scar tissue start to show some activity. They put him back on a heavy treatment.
It's whiped him out, as to be expected. However, it has done TOO good of a job killing things and an infection of a type of fungus normally present on the skin has cause my FIL to break out in a sort of rash. To complicate things to the utmost degree, the topical cream to combat this infection has caused very accute sensory problems in which his skin screams in pain when you touch any hair on his body. To add insult to injury, SOMETHING is causing him to hear and see very vivid hallucinations. He sometimes hears and sees the toilet water running like it was broken..even though it is not. He also sees people in the night. Some he says are funny and happy, some are not so nice to look at, sometimes he sees angels float by.
This is really worrying my MIL and wife, to be sure. My FIL is a very sharp and educated man. He was a chemical engineer for GE for 30 years (which we suspect is how he contracted his cancer to begin with). He's only 62 and acting loopy is NOT in his very scientific nature.
My wife is doing her best to be strong. She's a very emotional person, but she grinding through this, and her steadfast strength is amazing to me. My BIL does not handle such stress very well, so she knows she's got to be the one that is tough (totally not her character). Everyone is doing all that they can do, but it's frustrating.
If you fine folks could spare a little smoke or a thought or prayer, I would ever so much appreciate it. Prayer got him to the point that he was able to live a very normal active life for a couple of years. Now we have another battle to face.
Thanks so much,
Jake
