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Subject: responding to chemo
Date: 03/30/2008

To anyone who might be interested,

My dad was diaagnosed with GB cancer in July last year and was told there was no treatment for him because of the metastisis.  He gave up and almost died in Nov.  He started chemo with Gemzar and his tumors has shrunk to about 1/2 the size they were.  The time between having his abdomen tapped and drained is now 4 weeks and the amount is a 1/3 of what it had been. His liver is working again.  The main problem now is that he can't eat or drink much.  He is soooooooo tired of boost.  When he became confused and started falling - his doctor finally saw what we had been seeing and order TPN for dad.  Dad has a mediport in his chest and TPN is a high calorie, high protein and high lipids (fat) flluid that goes into the mediport.  He was so mal-nourished before and now he is mentally clearer than he has been in several weeks.  We are praying that his appetite returns soon and he doesn't require the TPN for a long time. It does increase the chance of infections and has to be given by an infusion pump but for now we still have dad.

Miracles happen every day and it's not always a cure that is the miracle.  God bless you.                  Charlotte

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