Posted on 03/21/2012 5:42:03 PM PDT by sauropod
Prayers lifted.
Oh I am so sorry to hear of this.. Holding you all in my thoughts and prayers. So many complications with treatments and diagnosis anymore. Thanks Trooprally for the headsup!
Talked with my wife last evening. Situation is a bit calmer yesterday, but her dad is still not doing well.
I expect to hear more either tonight or tomorrow.
God Bless!
ty for letting us know. Prayers continue!
Love in Christ,
Meeky
Sorry I'm a bit late to this thread. We had a long power outage last night... I will ping my biggest list here momentarily.
trooprally: Thanks for the heads up.
hellinahandcart's husband sauropod has posted information at the top of this thread.
Please keep Jim in your prayers... please direct your comments to hellinahandcart and/or sauropod.
prayers
Prayers up for Jim and family.
Please, everyone.... pray for Jim, his family, his medical team....
Dear Heavenly Father, We ask your intervention with our brother, Jim. Please comfort him. May he feels Your presence, love and guidance. Give wisdom and patience to his doctors and nurses. We also ask You to comfort his family. In This I Pray. Amen.
BTTT
Prayers lifted....
Prayers for your dad and concerned friends and family.
I join in earnest prayer for your dad, mom, brothers, you and your husband!
Praying.
Prayers for all - sorry about being so late to the thread...
I am happy to be able to announce two things:
1. My father's LAST radiation treatment takes place in about 3 hours. If any of you have more prayers to spare, please pray that we get him in and out of that appointment at 11:15 MT without the usual belligerence and agitation. Then we will at least not have that daily battle to fight anymore.
2. My father's mental condition has improved somewhat. He has been fairly lucid about 25% of the time over the last two days. He still doesn't know what day it is, or what time of day, but compared to what he was last week, he's much more like my father.
We DO NOT know what caused this to happen. After four weeks of withdrawing one drug after another, with no good result, we're pretty sure it isn't the drugs. He hasn't had chemotherapy in three weeks, so we're pretty sure it wasn't that (or the steroids he got prior to chemo, which did make him pretty aggressive when they wore off). He's hydrated now, so it's not the dehydration. And according to the doctors, the type of cancer my father has (squamous cell carcinoma) does not typically migrate to the brain, so they don't think it's that either. Although I suppose there's no law that says you can't have two cancers going at the same time, or cancer and a blood clot at the same time, etc.
We are just hoping that as his body starts to heal, which will start after today, that his mind does the same thing. It's all we can do.
I have been very comforted by this thread over the past week, and I thank all of you who replied, as well as those who prayed without replying.
I do have one more request. My father is the son of a Baptist minister. He is not especially religious himself, but Scripture was what he was raised on, and I am thinking that hearing it read aloud occasionally might ground him a little bit. But my own mind is just about a complete blank these days, and I can't seem to figure out where to start. So if any of you have a favorite verse, or something appropriate to my father's situation, or just something beautiful and reassuring, list it here and I'll give it a try.
Thank you again, from the bottom of my heart.
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