Hi,
I am sorry to hear that your father-in-law also has had bladder cancer. My husband has had 10 radiation treatments and will have chemo #3 this Wednesday. He was taking morphine when he got home from the hospital. After the radiation and the first chemo treatment he stopped taking the morphine. He is very depressed, because of all that has happened. Otherwise, he is doing fine. The doctor requested an appointment on Tuesday, so I am wondering what is going on. His next appointment with the doctor was supposed to be in March, after chemo 3 and a set of bone scans.
After he had the bladder removed, he was fine for about 16 months and then it came back as a spot on his lower spine. They radiated the spot and another one showed up. This time they radiated the new one and gave him chemo. That was last summer. In Dec, he was having major leg pain. They thought that he might have a hip fracture. The scan showed that his whole left hip was full of cancer. It seems like it is so aggressive that when ever you stop it in one place, it shows up somewhere else. Keep in touch and let me know how things are going with your father-in-law. I hope that he was found relief from the radation treatments.
Sandy