Thank you all again!
Dad in Hospital
Thank God we found out it is not leukemia but some weird thing called mylar or myloid displaysia
Well so much for that. He's not been feeling good again, and last week his hemoglobin was way down, 7 when it's supposed to be like 12. He's been on procrit and it's NOT helping and by the looks of things they think it's developed into leukemia again. He went into a big depression about dying, it seems he's very scared. He's also worried about my half brothers and sisters, who range in age from 11 to 17 and live with their mom, like how are they going survive if he dies and their is no child support. (Their mother with proabably blow the life insurance in a year.)
Anyway, his oncologist said there's nothing they can do, after age 60, bone marrow tranplants are not an option etc. Then he called this doctor from the cancer center in Tampa who gave him lots of optimism about bone marrow transplants and yes-STEM CELLS. I asked him if he can at least try to perceive why it is against OUR religion (remember-his dad was a very PIOUS Orthodox priest) and he basically said if his life is in question he doesn't care...
corrupted by western culture and the "marvels" of modern medicine.
I am keeping my mouth shut though, because I am not in his shoes and don't know what he's feeling.
He goes to to the doctor tomorrow and I just wanted everyone to say a prayer for him. Please pray for him to be strong and if the disease can not be treated ethically for him to prepare for a Christian ending.
Thank you.
In Christ
Tessa
Господе Исусе Христа, Синe Божји, Помилуј ме грешну!
Thank you all again. Well the prognosis is not so good. He has three options:
1.)Bone marrow transplant-with a 25% chance of dying in surgery or from infection, post operatively, which means he won't be able to work and we probably won't be able to go around him for the first year. I don't know WHERE he would live or who would take care of him ;-(
2.) Chemo therapy-he'll be in remission from the myloid dysplasia but he'll feel bad and lose his hair, get sick, etc.
3.) Experimental treatments which he hasn't talked to the guy who heads that yet.
We have been talking and praying about it and he thinks the bone marrow transplant is too risky. He is still going to one other cancer hospital in Texas before he makes a decision.
The one thing I have to say about the whole situation is this, as hard at is- I DO think it is a blessing for him. If he had died suddenly of a heart attack or something I doubt there would be any chance for him in the heavenly kingdom. I think he has a lot of repentance to do and at least maybe this will give him a chance for that. And there are plenty of worse diseases and ways to die out there-his father became paralyzed from stroke for the years prior to his death, and his mother wasted away with Parkinsons. (I remember what a profound impact my grandmothers illness had on me as a child, God rest her soul, at the end when she was bedridden and in a state of constant tremor-she would incessantly pray the old Slavonic prayers aloud for hours. Unable almost to even answer anyone, her last years on earth were spent in constant prayer.)
ANyway...please continue to pray not so much for my dad's healing, but for him to be close to God and increase his faith-no matter what the outcome of this serious sistuation may be.
In Christ
Tessa
Господе Исусе Христа, Синe Божји, Помилуј ме грешну!
