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B|*ZZ4rD newsSaturday, 26 July 2003
as usual, my brother has said it better than i can ;-)
"i thin kit's been long enough since i gave you an update on my dad (previous)
yesterday was the last day ofhis radiotherapy, i managed to get my nice boss to let me not be in work (i didn't have to take a holiday) to pick him up, which was really nice
he's in good spirit, the only side effects e's been having is from the steroids he's on and the only noticable one is massive weight gain, he's put on two stone (although it looks like more) oh and the radiotherapy has made his hair fall out (and the people that know him would know that it isn't very big a deal)
but by talking to him and spending time with him you wouldn't know he's got such a serious brain tumor... apparently the radiotherapy actually makes the brain swell and the doctors are plesently suprised that he didn't have any "tumor side effects" so thats very encouraging.
now, not for the first time we play the waiting game, we're waiting until in four weeks time he's gonna be haing another CT scan and that'll be able to tell us how the radiotherapy has gone... after that they have said that chemotherapy is an option (via tablet form) but my dad's attitude which i completely understand and support is that he doesn't feel like it's his time to go so if it'll extend his life then lets do it...
one of the interesting things is that when he had his "episode" and we took him to A&E we were told for the first time that this was classified as terminal, and that they gave him 6 months from diagnosis to live. they told us this in the beginning of april by which time he'd been diagnosed for 2 months therefore by the doctors expectations he wouldn't live to see his radiotherapy results
the fact that doctors radiotherapists and consultants are so positive is a good thing.... we might yet be able to beat this thing
fingers crossed"
"i thin kit's been long enough since i gave you an update on my dad (previous)
yesterday was the last day ofhis radiotherapy, i managed to get my nice boss to let me not be in work (i didn't have to take a holiday) to pick him up, which was really nice
he's in good spirit, the only side effects e's been having is from the steroids he's on and the only noticable one is massive weight gain, he's put on two stone (although it looks like more) oh and the radiotherapy has made his hair fall out (and the people that know him would know that it isn't very big a deal)
but by talking to him and spending time with him you wouldn't know he's got such a serious brain tumor... apparently the radiotherapy actually makes the brain swell and the doctors are plesently suprised that he didn't have any "tumor side effects" so thats very encouraging.
now, not for the first time we play the waiting game, we're waiting until in four weeks time he's gonna be haing another CT scan and that'll be able to tell us how the radiotherapy has gone... after that they have said that chemotherapy is an option (via tablet form) but my dad's attitude which i completely understand and support is that he doesn't feel like it's his time to go so if it'll extend his life then lets do it...
one of the interesting things is that when he had his "episode" and we took him to A&E we were told for the first time that this was classified as terminal, and that they gave him 6 months from diagnosis to live. they told us this in the beginning of april by which time he'd been diagnosed for 2 months therefore by the doctors expectations he wouldn't live to see his radiotherapy results
the fact that doctors radiotherapists and consultants are so positive is a good thing.... we might yet be able to beat this thing
fingers crossed"
