Update

Sorry for the delay in updating this blog.
I have spent the last few day’s with my father helping out my brothers with the business.
Next week is a big week, as predicted the PET scan appointment has arrived and is scheduled for Tuesday at 12.30pm. We also have an appointment with the knee replacement surgeon on [...]

Letter from the Lung Specialist to my father’s GP

The PET Scan

We have decided to go ahead and arrange a PET scan on the premise my father is going for the Radical option. This is purely a formality to enable this to happen. The results will dictate whether we go for the gentle radiotherapy building up to the Radical option.
We should get an appointment time sometime [...]

The 5 Options

On the 21st August my father, myself and brother in law attended an appointment with the Lung Specialist. It was the news that we were dreading, praying and hoping not to hear. The biopsy results confirmed that the large grapefruit like mass was as suspected a grapefruit sized malignant tumor. The same sqaumous non-small cell [...]

My brother in law the nutritionist

My brother in law and family came to visit my father today. They travelled from quite far and came with some surprises. Looks like bro in law has been doing a lot of research around the cancer field and being that he is a nutritionist by profession has devised a strict diet for my dad. [...]

IV Vitamin C Treatment

We are all preparing for the 21st August, next Tuesday.
My father has an appointment with the lung specialist to go over the results of the biopsy.
We are praying that what my father has is a large abscess and not a tumor, but from past experiences, hoping leads to disappointment. We have to be realistic for [...]

He watched castaway with us tonight

My father was doing well tonight. He’s a little fedup of lying down all the time, but whenever he tries to get up and do something taxing he breaks out into a sweat and even a fever at times.
He has some shortness of breath but doesnt cough that much.
He looks so humbled these days, quiet, [...]

Day of biopsy

Today, or yesterday if you look at the time on this entry, my father went through a ct assisted biopsy.
We arrived at the hospital at 10.30am sharp, and the actual procedure took around 20 minutes. As the procedure bore the risk of a punctured lung or air leakage he had to stay in hospital for [...]

The CT assisted biopsy

My father went into hospital for a blood test today. He is due to have a CT assisted biopsy tomorrow at 10.30am at our local hospital.
A CT assisted biopsy is required to establish 100% whether he has Lung Cancer. At present, they are 95% sure based on samples taken from the lung during a Broncoscopy.
The [...]

The nightmare continues

My father was diagnosed with Lung Cancer on the 7th of August 2007. Until then, we were under the impression that he was suffering from an abbesses in the Lung. This was the conclusion we we were lead to after 10 days of hospital stay.
I took the phone call from my crying distraught father at [...]