Posted on 07/15/2006 7:50:37 AM PDT by ut1992
My fellow FR's, I didn't think I would ever do this, but I need your help.
My dear brother, very best friend and mentor was diagnosed yesterday with testicular cancer which has spread into his stomach. He is 1.5 weeks shy of his 45th b-day.
The phone rang last night about 10:45 and on the other end was my brother and he was crying. As I haven't seen/heard my brother crying since he was a kid I immediately thought somebody in the family had been in a terrible accident or had died.
He finally told me that about the cancer and that he had just found out that afternoon and had been sitting in his home office alone for hours and crying....and getting drunk (he is not a heavy drinker).
I was the first person he called and he wanted my help. After that comment I will confess that the water-works started for me as well. He asked if I would let the folks and our other brothers know. He said he would call his kids and new fiance.
Geez, what a night; e.g. my better-half and I didn't get to bed until about 4am. Mom and Dad are absolutely inconsolable. Grandma still doesn't know, as Mom didn't want to tell her over the phone. At 86 she can't take that kind of news alone.
Ironically my brother and future SIL came out to visit us about a month ago and my brother was telling us that he was starting to feel "old" and that his back has been brothering him for about the last six months off and on. Now, my brother has been an athlete all of his life and he still plays sports, jogs and works out. So we were all joking that age was indeed catching up with him.
He went to the doctor about his back and was told that we probably just strained something and gave him some muscle relaxers and pain pills. That combined with sport messages seemed to do the trick for a while.
However, about a week ago he thought he may have pulled a groin muscle or had a hernia. He went back to the doctor and this was the result of the tests they ran.
He went into the hospital this morning and is having a immediate radical inguinal orchiectomy (both testes) and have biopsies done on several "masses" they found in his stomach.
Please keep my dear brother in your prayers and hope that he isn't called home just yet.
Thanks guys.
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ut1992, My prayers going up for your brother and his family. I pray for a miracle for your brother, if that is not possible...I pray for God's peace. God's comfort for his family.
Blessings,
trussell
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Your brother, and your family, is in my prayers this evening.
Prayers for your whole family and especially your brother, ut.
It takes a great deal of faith to deal with and own our mortality, your own or someone elses. Every poster here is going to die some day. The issue is never length of years. The issue is always- how is the world different because of _______ (fill in the blank.)
Your brother is with you and he is completely here, loving life, wanting more. How much more sad if he hated life and gave it up of his own free will. A set of nads is not too high a price to pay for a family who is devoted to you, apart from equipment.
My sister was a Ralph Nader greenie, and yet we agreed on many things, including the value of life. One of her favorite quotes was from John Donne.
No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as any manner of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
Your brother is a part of you, and you are part of us. Here is my prayer:
Father, Be with this family, through it's hurts and misundersatndings. We cannot know joy, unless we know it's absence, and you, Father, Are with us in joy and in pain, in famine and in plenty. Lord, Please, your healing for this family. May they know You in their midst. Ecc 4: 9-12
Your brother, and all of your family are in our prayers. We will pray for the miracle of healing and a long and peaceful life for him.
"TT", Beth & Nana
Dear God... prayers for your brother, and for your family.
Prayers up for your brother's healing, and for strength for all of you.
Absolutely your brother has our prayers. Thanks for asking, it's our honor to pray for FReepers requests.
God WILL bless him--!
Hey, kiddo--!
I'm going to put you on our prayer list, too.
FRiend, please let me know (FReepmail) the outcome of your tests. I'll be waiting.
PS--waiting for the test results is always the hardest part. God bless, FRiend.
Prayers for your brother and your family. My dad is a cancer survivor. The diagnosis is overwhelming, but you can really learn so much about options on the computer. Arm yourself and your brother with knowledge, I will pray for strength and complete restoration.
Prayers sent for your brother and your family.
Prayers said for your brother to The Great Physician. Keep the faith, stay positive and repeat God's Word... No weapon formed against you shall prosper. A merry heart is like medicine.
You are a great sister, your brother knows it; now we all do!!
Carolyn
Prayers for your brother. If it helps, I do know 2 men who have survived testicular cancer.
Agreeing in prayer for healing for your brother.
I remember when my sister, who was in her 40s, called me to say she had been diagnosed with cancer. That was over 8-9 years ago and she's been cancer free since completing her treatment. My prayers are with your brother and family.
Prayers up for your brother and your family.
It may not seem like it, but it is good news. They'll take care of him at MD Anderson, very very well. Cancer is all they do - work on, observe, operate on, treat, caretake. They've seen it all and will know exactly what needs to be done.
That really *is* good news. Prayers continuing ...
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