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We are selling my childhood home and moving into the city proper so that the ambulances servicing us will be from Princess Margaret or Toronto General Hospital. My father has a stage 3 malignant tumour in his lungs that has metastasised and spread to his lymph nodes, combined with multiple clots in his lungs that continue to form despite the blood thinners. In the hospital, he has contracted MRSA. They cannot perform the lobectomy due to bleeding, clotting and the positions of the clots relative to the tumour. He has months to live without treatment, maybe weeks. With radiation therapy and chemotherapy simultaneously he has a 20% chance to survive, but they are unsure whether they will be able to perform them simultaneously, and may have to stagger treatment. This reduces his chances of survival significantly. There is a 1 in 1000 chance of being permanently paralysed from the treatment. There is a significantly higher risk of bleeding to death from the radiation, as it is known to cause internal hemorrhaging in some cases. If he survives, he will have permanent tatoos on his torso that outline where the tumours were.