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I guess there are one or two people out there who have wondered what the hell happened to me. I don’t usually write about my personal life on here but I’ll make an exception this time. My father fell ill last year and has been sick off and on over the months. This August some lumps showed up on cat scans and efforts to biopsy a mass in his lungs were unsuccessful. A few days prior to a second attempt to biopsy the lung I was called to meet my parents at the emergency room; my dad was in a bad way and it turned out he had a large tumor at the base of his brain on the spinal stem. Whatever they were trying to look at in his lung had spread throughout his body, pretty much putting him in the terminal category. That was about four weeks ago.
Neurosurgery was scheduled and performed pretty quick and was successful. Unfortunately due to my father’s weak condition chemotherapy was not a viable option. As he was beginnning to get up and about after the surgery he suddenly developed severe difficulty breathing and it was off to the emergency room again. The mass in his lung had doubled in size in just three weeks and was cutting off air flow to the lungs. There were also many smaller spots thoughout his lungs and liver.
The plan was to treat the tumor blocking the airway with radiation in order to shrink it just as a means to provide a little more bit of qualiity time. Unfortunately, again, the cancer was enmeshed with the aorta and shrinking it would likely cause the aorta to rupture resulting in instant death. Thus, since this past Thursday dad has been in hospice care at his home, which is where he is the happiest. He dozed off Saturday afternoon and has yet to wake up and probably wont. He is expected to pass this evening or tomorrow, but knowing my dad he will wait till Wednesday just to prove them wrong.
The next post will be an obit and after that probably more photography than writing as I try to regain my bearings.