Family Matters
On friday of this week, we discovered that my mother has incurable pancreatic cancer, which has partially spread to her liver.
Due to the location and type of cancer, radiation therapy isn't an option; and due to the blood thinners, surgery also has been ruled out, and will never be an option, due to the fact that the cancer is what's making her blood thicken and clot.
So the course of treatment is chemotherapy, once a week, for the rest of her life. And due to the fact that the cancer is thickening her blood, she will be on blood thinners for the rest of her life, which requires her to inject herself in the abdomen twice daily.
The doctors as yet have not given us a solid estimation of her time left, as there are still a few more tests they will be preforming. She has an appointment with the doctors at the start of October, at which they will lay all the cards on the table.
Mum is home from hospital now, and attempting to rest to the best of her abilities.
The family have known for a fortnight now that she had cancer, but we were not expecting, nor were we prepared for the result to be this terrible.
I know that the thoughts and the prayers of you all are with not only myself, or my mother, but with my entire family at this time.
May you be saved from the perils that life has thrown at my family.
God bless, and God speed.
Due to the location and type of cancer, radiation therapy isn't an option; and due to the blood thinners, surgery also has been ruled out, and will never be an option, due to the fact that the cancer is what's making her blood thicken and clot.
So the course of treatment is chemotherapy, once a week, for the rest of her life. And due to the fact that the cancer is thickening her blood, she will be on blood thinners for the rest of her life, which requires her to inject herself in the abdomen twice daily.
The doctors as yet have not given us a solid estimation of her time left, as there are still a few more tests they will be preforming. She has an appointment with the doctors at the start of October, at which they will lay all the cards on the table.
Mum is home from hospital now, and attempting to rest to the best of her abilities.
The family have known for a fortnight now that she had cancer, but we were not expecting, nor were we prepared for the result to be this terrible.
I know that the thoughts and the prayers of you all are with not only myself, or my mother, but with my entire family at this time.
May you be saved from the perils that life has thrown at my family.
God bless, and God speed.