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Hi to all on the same journey,

 My 55yr old father after a month of tests and scans has also been diagnosed with Klatskin. He just undergone surgery to place a stent in the bile tract to drain bile fluid, and radiation therapy will be given next month to try and slow things down on the right side of his liver only, the left sidethey can do nothing for because it has already started to die. my father has been told they cannot operate because if they try to remove the tumor he will die, doc's give him 4/5 months maybe a year if he is lucky.

I feel like a rabbit stuck in car head lights.

On 10/22/2007 marja wrote:

Hi to all on the same journey,

 My 55yr old father after a month of tests and scans has also been diagnosed with Klatskin. He just undergone surgery to place a stent in the bile tract to drain bile fluid, and radiation therapy will be given next month to try and slow things down on the right side of his liver only, the left sidethey can do nothing for because it has already started to die. my father has been told they cannot operate because if they try to remove the tumor he will die, doc's give him 4/5 months maybe a year if he is lucky.

I feel like a rabbit stuck in car head lights.

Hi Marja,

This year end of March my very healthy, very sportive, 61 year old husband was diagnosed with the same cancer. Liver allready so badly infected that surgery could not be performed. When he left the hospital, specialists told us we would have some weeks, may be 2 months.

Though at first your world collapses, my brave husband started living. He ate extra to regain the ten kilo's weight loss. He went back to work and plays squash again. The stents help him to feel well. And as you can read from this, the weeks we had are allready 5 months at this moment. And he is still doing well. We talked about things to come, but his attitude is "I am living today, feeling well today and I refuse to worry about what is coming. I can cope with that when that time comes".

This is the reason we had a wonderful, even happy summer. Family, friends and collegues show their love and friendship. We are having lovely dinners and familymeetings. Our sons, allready living apart from us, come home every weekend. And we talk and cry and laugh.

We know the timebomb is ticking, but we also know that these months are very rich. We never thought a thing like this could happen to this healthy man, but we have no bitterness. We have so many things to be happy about. That makes that we can be strong, that we spread a good message to all around us. And that we really feel happy about every morning we open our eyes and see each other.

I sincerely hope that you and your family can do the same. That makes that one can cope and be strong.

Will you please keep me posted? I am feeling with you.

Kind regards, Iris.

Thank you Iris,

at the moment dad has had to go back into hospital due to infection and fingers crossed he is strong enough to fight it. We live in Australia i am 36 married with three children, i also have two younger Brothers we are all like best friends. We are trying to be strong for mum and dadand work through this as a family and enjoy the time we have left with him.It's hard to talk about it because we are still so numb but i know we will be ok.Tanks again for your kind words.

Marja