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dreamcatcherchris Message: RE: SAD Caregiver dreamcatcherchris Recommend this Message Report Abuse Email a Friend Track this Message [Remove] Subject: RE: SAD Date: 03/17/2008 On 3/17/2008 debbiez wrote: I'm pretty sure that the bloating is caused by the fluid accumulation. The CT-scan showed that my father has ascitic fluid in the abdomen which causes bloating and puts pressure on his stomach making him feel full all the time. I'm not sure why the legs swell up though. He handled the chemo very well today. He isn't sick at all--just tired. I agree, quality of life is very iportant...but right now he wants to fight. The time will come when he will chose to stop...but he was not willing to give up without trying. My prayers are with you all as well. This is very difficult for all involved! yes it is difficult and he decided today to have chemo and if he is sick like he was the first time hes done.god bless you and goodluck Private Reply Quote Reply to This Message dreamcatcherchris Message: RE: Sad Caregiver dreamcatcherchris Recommend this Message Report Abuse Email a Friend Track this Message [Remove] Subject: RE: Sad Date: 04/11/2008 On 3/16/2008 dreamcatcherchris wrote: I have a close friend who was diagnosed jan 15, 2008 with advanced pancreatic cancer. He has went from 230 pounds to 146 since august. He has had one chemo treatment (gemcitibine) and was supposed to have his second one a week later march 13, 2008 but was in the hospital having a stent put in his bile duct to relieve the jaundice. He throws up everyday and he came home fri the 14th from hospital and is not doing very good. I have made him smoothies and oatmeal and tried to prepare healthy foods and he takes a bite and thats it. Hes very weak and doesn't really have family support so i take him to all his drs appts make sure he has medicines and if he gets new symptom i call the dr . He is bloated in his stomach and legs swelling and only urinated once yesterday. I don't know what to do he wants the chemo because he thinks it will prolong his life till may to see his son graduate but i don't know that he will make it hes so weak and just very ill i don't even know that he could even make the trip or even if the chemo is gonna help or worth it because he is so weak and the cancers so advanced, we are gonna ask the dr tomorrow. I don't even know the stages or when its getting to the point of him being bedridden everytime i call the dr with a symptom they just call in a new med and none of the nausea meds at home work. If anyone has gone through this or going through this i need some advice and info. I haven't been on in a while because i was stying at my friends taking care of him. I just wanted to let you all know he was diagnosed in january and he passed away monday april 7, 2008 and i was beside him holding his hand. He held strong till his son got there sunday and an hour and a half later took a turn for the worse , his son left at ten on monday and he passed away at 8 after i put the phone to his ear when his son returned home and he told him to go to sleep it was ok it was time to rest and that he loved him. I hate this disease so much!!!!!! Good luck all you are min my prayers! Private Reply Quote Reply to This Message dreamcatcherchris Message: RE: SAD Caregiver dreamcatcherchris Recommend this Message Report Abuse Email a Friend Track this Message [Remove] Subject: RE: SAD Date: 04/11/2008 On 3/16/2008 debbiez wrote: I stumbled on this message board when looking up GTX. My father was diagnosed on February 8th, 2008. He will be starting his first dose of chemo tomorrow. He has a 2 cm mass in the pancreas with metastasis to the omentum and duedonum. It was inoperable and he was initially given 2 weeks to 6 months. We are hoping that this treatment will give us more precious time without him losing too much quality of life. We went to Sloan but they did not suggest this therapy. A local hospital, St. Frances, suggested this therapy as it has had some promising results. He has very little appetite and is weak but in no pain. He did have a resectioning also. This came on so sudden. He thought he had the flu, then a bladder infection and then jaundice and then given a death sentence! It seems so unfair. I do worry that it may be genetic. It is nice to hear someone else's story. It is difficult to talk about it to those so close to it. Thanks. How is your father? Private Reply Quote Reply to This Message
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