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[lil_amysunshine]

My Daddy has lung, throat, and brain cancer. He's getting radiation every day for two weeks to try to shrink the brain tumors. After that, he starts 6 to 10 weeks of chemo to shrink the lung/throat cancer. Hopefully, if he has any other cancer, that will also be shrinked by the chemo

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[joymattingly]

It's so scary to think about losing a parent. You are literally half of two people in the world and there's a certain void that losing one of those halves will leave. My Dad has survived a heart attack, falling down stairs, shattered vertebrae, surgery, and falling off a roof. If my Dad were a cat, he'd be running out of lives. I remember being in the hospital after my Dad went through surgery for the vertebrae and cutting my Dad's toe nails. He didn't have the strength to do it, so I did. He couldn't speak well either because of the tubes and plus they go through the front to get to the spine and I sat on his bed beside him and clipped his toe nails. It seems so silly to say that this was important to me, this mundane task, but it was what I could offer, so I offered it. And it made me feel connected to him, intimate. As close to climbing up on his lap and putting my arms around his neck as I could get, as he was sore you see. I didn't want to crowd him, but I would have. So if your Dad has the strength, my suggestion is to climb on his lap, hug him around the neck, and read him a book. It may seem silly at first, but no matter what happens, it'll be a lovely memory cause isn't that what we really want from our parents, the perpetual security of their lap.

My heart goes out to you, your family, and the original Pot Belly, Chicken Leg Man who is very stubborn. I'm sure he won't give in to it.