I told you guys he was crazy. This was one I snapped at our family dinner last Friday night. He was trying to get to my martini and I was warning him that it wouldn't be pretty if he touched it... We had so much fun!
Now for the downer stuff, the results of the petscan today were not as good as we'd hoped. He had several "hot spots" show up in various places, including around some lymph nodes in this neck and under his armpits, there were also hot spots in several places in his lungs.
The doctors will be doing a bronchioscope tomorrow morning to remove some tissue from his lungs for testing. If the results of this test are inconclusive, they will take him in on Monday to have 2 lymph nodes removed from his neck. Hopefully, these two procedures will give the doctors what they need to make an accurate diagnosis of what is happening to my daddy.
His last pet scan was done on June 30th and it showed no abnormalities, so we are puzzled as to how it could have gotten this bad, in the last 45 days. But, we still don't know what it is that the "hot spots" are showing us so we're trying to be positive still.
When he went into remission, the doctors warned us that if it came back, it would be twice as agressive as it was the first time and there was no way to guess how it would come back... for example, it could have returned as colon or liver cancer or it could come back as leukimia... we just don't know and until they get these biopsies done, we won't know.
What I do know is that I am so grateful for Vanderbilt and all of the skilled doctors that are there. They saved him once and I know that they will do it again. I'm planning to go on up to Nashville tomorrow night to be with them. I don't want my mom coping alone.
I am fine. I started back on the Celexa today and hopefully I will feel the benefits from it soon. Bear with me you guys. This is a tough one.
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Thursday, September 11, 2008
Papa Fro Update
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Hugs and prayers.
My family will be thinking positive for you. Ya'll are in our prayers.
Yet more virtual hugs and kisses and prayers and all the good stuff you need coming your way! I wish I knew IRL then I'd hook you up in real time.
Thanks for the update...I was thinking about you today.
More (((HUGS))) and prayers being sent to the Afro family.
I will be praying for you and your father.
Praying for your father and family.
I hope the Celexa helps you out. I've never taken it, but my mom's on it and it has helped her some.
I'm hoping for the best for you guys. Have a safe trip.
Sorry to hear about all the stress and worries your family has been through lately. Hugs and prayers.
Hang in there, sweetie!! We are praying for ya.
That's a great picture! I am praying hard that the next round of tests will show nothing scary. I'm glad you can go be with your mom. Hang in there and please let me know if there is anything I can do for y'all.
Have a safe drive, hoping all goes well with ya pops.
My neighbor (the one with breast cancer) when she was first diagnosed it was just cancer cells, she got a double masectomy. It came back very quickly, then she had to do chemo and lost all her hair. She just got the word yesterday that the tumors are gone and she is in remission and will start radiation shortly.
Continued prayers for your family Ash.
Thinking of you. Celexa is my BFF.
Ashley, please don't come this weekend. I know we will probably need you next weekend to help take care of him. If you could just wait a week. Thanks. Love u Mother
There is a variation of obstacles one endures in their lifetime. Seems as though I am at the point in my life where I can't find a single person who understands any of them.
My mom is a cancer survivor. Like your father she had stage four Melanoma when we found it. She has been in remission for going on six years now, eight years from the first diagnosis. During this time we have celebrated her every milestone, mourned the loss of her mother to cancer, and celebrated once more the largest hurdle cancer survivors know...the five year mark.
It was this week she uttered the words "it's melanoma" after getting another mole removed.
For some reason, I am more scared this time than I was last time when we called in the lawyers for her will.
I can say with certainty I get what you are going through and am so thankful you get me.
Glad to have found your blog, will be reading!
Jessica
I love that you call him your Daddy.
You're so cute. And I SO feel the love you have for him from here. I'm glad he's in safe hands.
Praying for the best and thinking of you!!
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