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Ew march has definetly been offically the worst month of my entire life. My brother who you may or may not know (if there is anyone reading this) had cancer when he and I were younger. He was 9 and I was 14. It was very sad. HE had to have operation, kemo, and radiation to get rid of his brain tumor.
For February Vacation my family (with out me of course becuase im in vermont), went to Camp Sunshine. This is a retreat for children and there families who have suffered from big problems. For example disease like heart problems, lung problems, bone cancer, loss of a parents, 911 family victoms, katria familys ect. ect. ect. At this camp your family goes and theres activies like skiing, sledding, fishing, kayaking, rock wall, ya know like reall fun stuff. So they went to that for February Vacation.
They got back on Sunday night and my mom noticed Greg (brother)'s ear was almost 3 sizes larger than the other one. SHe was concerened but thought it was just becasue he was outside skiing all day. On Monday the ear almost was 4 times the size and this made my mother worried so she called the doctor (who after looking over my brothers history told him to come in right away.)
After getting to the doctors the doctor said things to greg like smile really wide, lift up ur eye brows, close your eyes, wink at me, so on and so forth. As it turns out there was nothing moving on the left side of his face! So when he lifted his eye browns the left side of his face wasnt moving at all! The doctor knew this was a bad sign so told my brother to go to boston children's for some furthur tests.
After one test after the first day they found a small form of cancer on the back side of his brain near his ear which effects hearing and facial expressions. This put my mother, myself, and my entire family in panic mode. See the cure for cancer isnt adnvanced enough as it should be. As a result if a cancer comes back and requires radation there is ntohing a doctor can do becuase there is only so much radiaiton a body can wistain. So for about a week we were all crying, praying, in real panic mode.
Then after a week of test after test after test they found that he has a fornm of bone cancer which may or may not be treatable. This scares the crap out of us but its a relly good sign that its not from the one before. Now this cnacer is much different from the other one. To find out how advanced it is and before an operation is done you first do 3 weeks of kemo (then they cna find out how advanced it is) and depending on what those results are they will either contine for another 10 weeks of kemo or they will say " im sorry there is nothing we can do for him he might die soon" tthena fter the 10 weeks he will get an opeartion, have more kemo, a small dose of radiation and then he should be fine.
So as it stands right now doctors say they will not know how bad it is or anything for 2 weeks!
Meanwhile the day my mother got back (the sunday) she brought the cat to the vet because he fell off her bed and couldnt get up and he wasnt eating and stuff. So my mother is in the hospital on monday morning when the doctor calls and says that topaz (cat) has liver cancer nd has to be force fed and given steroids for a month then he may be back to normal. (my mom is sooooooooooooo in love with this cat its scary) so shes freaking out about greg and the cat now. SO my mother explains to the vet wat is going on and the vet agrees to take the cat until she leaves boston to get him. So a week goes by andmy parnts are pretty much living at the hopsital and i came home for a visit nad picked the cat up. My brother came home the day that i left so we had a little party with cake nad creme brulee. So the cat was really week and becauwse of the lung cancer he couldnt walk on the left side of his front paw which was really really sad. My parents decided before i left that they wehre gonna put Topaz to sleep which i really didnt think my mom would do. But they did it yesturday afternoon. My brother and father say my mom hasnt stop crying. They say she has been just waling from one room to anoher just bolling her eyes out. My father told me he thinks its worse because she was holding nd petting topaz while they were injecting him which would freak me out too. Its just so sad.
So my mother and my family are dealing with the loss of my cat and the sickness of my brother. This has just been the worse month of my life.
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For February Vacation my family (with out me of course becuase im in vermont), went to Camp Sunshine. This is a retreat for children and there families who have suffered from big problems. For example disease like heart problems, lung problems, bone cancer, loss of a parents, 911 family victoms, katria familys ect. ect. ect. At this camp your family goes and theres activies like skiing, sledding, fishing, kayaking, rock wall, ya know like reall fun stuff. So they went to that for February Vacation.
They got back on Sunday night and my mom noticed Greg (brother)'s ear was almost 3 sizes larger than the other one. SHe was concerened but thought it was just becasue he was outside skiing all day. On Monday the ear almost was 4 times the size and this made my mother worried so she called the doctor (who after looking over my brothers history told him to come in right away.)
After getting to the doctors the doctor said things to greg like smile really wide, lift up ur eye brows, close your eyes, wink at me, so on and so forth. As it turns out there was nothing moving on the left side of his face! So when he lifted his eye browns the left side of his face wasnt moving at all! The doctor knew this was a bad sign so told my brother to go to boston children's for some furthur tests.
After one test after the first day they found a small form of cancer on the back side of his brain near his ear which effects hearing and facial expressions. This put my mother, myself, and my entire family in panic mode. See the cure for cancer isnt adnvanced enough as it should be. As a result if a cancer comes back and requires radation there is ntohing a doctor can do becuase there is only so much radiaiton a body can wistain. So for about a week we were all crying, praying, in real panic mode.
Then after a week of test after test after test they found that he has a fornm of bone cancer which may or may not be treatable. This scares the crap out of us but its a relly good sign that its not from the one before. Now this cnacer is much different from the other one. To find out how advanced it is and before an operation is done you first do 3 weeks of kemo (then they cna find out how advanced it is) and depending on what those results are they will either contine for another 10 weeks of kemo or they will say " im sorry there is nothing we can do for him he might die soon" tthena fter the 10 weeks he will get an opeartion, have more kemo, a small dose of radiation and then he should be fine.
So as it stands right now doctors say they will not know how bad it is or anything for 2 weeks!
Meanwhile the day my mother got back (the sunday) she brought the cat to the vet because he fell off her bed and couldnt get up and he wasnt eating and stuff. So my mother is in the hospital on monday morning when the doctor calls and says that topaz (cat) has liver cancer nd has to be force fed and given steroids for a month then he may be back to normal. (my mom is sooooooooooooo in love with this cat its scary) so shes freaking out about greg and the cat now. SO my mother explains to the vet wat is going on and the vet agrees to take the cat until she leaves boston to get him. So a week goes by andmy parnts are pretty much living at the hopsital and i came home for a visit nad picked the cat up. My brother came home the day that i left so we had a little party with cake nad creme brulee. So the cat was really week and becauwse of the lung cancer he couldnt walk on the left side of his front paw which was really really sad. My parents decided before i left that they wehre gonna put Topaz to sleep which i really didnt think my mom would do. But they did it yesturday afternoon. My brother and father say my mom hasnt stop crying. They say she has been just waling from one room to anoher just bolling her eyes out. My father told me he thinks its worse because she was holding nd petting topaz while they were injecting him which would freak me out too. Its just so sad.
So my mother and my family are dealing with the loss of my cat and the sickness of my brother. This has just been the worse month of my life.
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