Well..It has been awhile since I have posted updates for this fight to continue...
Very sad news....
Dad was admitted to the hospital at USC Norris during Labor Day weekend for an infection in his port where they administered his chemo for the leukemia treatments..He was released a few days later..He did not fair very well and his wife had to call an ambulance within a couple days as he was shaking and could not rise out of bed..She asked the EMTs to take him to Long Beach Memorial where he has now been for 2 weeks. His white blood count has been very high..Lets say normal is in the 10s maybe 15s to fight infection..well with leukemia these infection fighters become radical and divide into abnormal cells..Dad's have been in the 100,000s.
I would never had known that the battle, my father started with, against cancer and treatment with chemo and radiation for his lymphoma and tumor could turn ugly on us and cause this new blood cancer ravaging within his body. The tumor has ceased growing and the lymphoma now not the issue but Leukemia.
Greg and I were told last week that the doctors have said there is not much more they can do for treatment..Dad is not at an age that he can receive any new technologies such as bone marrow or stem cell transplants and now I feel this is in God's hands and the disease will either take over my father's body or with prayer a miracle of all miracles will happen..
Dad has been prayed over, prayed with and he is such a positive man that he is looking for hope and we do not talk about death.. He has been eating well and we listen to talk of future plans..I again am praying for a miracle to happen...
