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StephN · 04-02-2007, 12:33 PM

We are all familiar with that one, right??
Well, we are in a situation of HORRIBLE things happening to the BEST people.

My Dad is very bad off right now. He has incubated a bad infection and is in the OR right now for the surgeon to clean the wound well and put in a "wound vac" thing that actually helps suction out the poison that is developing. His white blood cell count has dropped a LOT since starting on the antibiotics, but we have to just pray that his body is still strong enough to get through this.

This would be a terrible way to lose him. On Sat he was sitting up and enjoying sports with us - tennis, baseball and basketball. In the evening he got very tired and could hardly wake up. He was already on one antibiotic then and started on a second one.

Please pray for him - this is truly a case of BAD things happening to a GODLY person.

Heartbroken - Stephanie

04-02-2007, 12:33 PM	#1
StephN Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Misty woods of WA State Posts: 4,128	Bad things happen to good people ... We are all familiar with that one, right?? Well, we are in a situation of HORRIBLE things happening to the BEST people. My Dad is very bad off right now. He has incubated a bad infection and is in the OR right now for the surgeon to clean the wound well and put in a "wound vac" thing that actually helps suction out the poison that is developing. His white blood cell count has dropped a LOT since starting on the antibiotics, but we have to just pray that his body is still strong enough to get through this. This would be a terrible way to lose him. On Sat he was sitting up and enjoying sports with us - tennis, baseball and basketball. In the evening he got very tired and could hardly wake up. He was already on one antibiotic then and started on a second one. Please pray for him - this is truly a case of BAD things happening to a GODLY person. Heartbroken - Stephanie __________________ "When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest." H.D. Thoreau Live in the moment. MY STORY SO FAR ~~~~ Found suspicious lump 9/2000 Lumpectomy, then node dissection and port placement Stage IIB, 8 pos nodes of 18, Grade 3, ER & PR - Adriamycin 12 weekly, taxotere 4 rounds 36 rads - very little burning 3 mos after rads liver full of tumors, Stage IV Jan 2002, one spot on sternum Weekly Taxol, Navelbine, Herceptin for 27 rounds to NED! 2003 & 2004 no active disease - 3 weekly Herceptin + Zometa Jan 2005 two mets to brain - Gamma Knife on Jan 18 All clear until treated cerebellum spot showing activity on Jan 2006 brain MRI & brain PET Brain surgery on Feb 9, 2006 - no cancer, 100% radiation necrosis - tumor was still dying Continue as NED while on Herceptin & quarterly Zometa Fall-2006 - off Zometa - watching one small brain spot (scar?) 2007 - spot/scar in brain stable - finished anticoagulation therapy for clot along my port-a-catheter - 3 angioplasties to unblock vena cava 2008 - Brain and body still NED! Port removed and scans in Dec. Dec 2008 - stop Herceptin - Vaccine Trial at U of W begun in Oct. of 2011 STILL NED everywhere in Feb 2014 - on wing & prayer 7/14 - Started twice yearly Zometa for my bones Jan. 2015 checkup still shows NED 2015 Neuropathy in feet - otherwise all OK - still NED. Same news for 2016 and all of 2017. Nov of 2017 - had small skin cancer removed from my face. Will have Zometa end of Jan. 2018.