Back in the first of june my dad was having problems with his hips and knees hurting and a lump on his left shoulder blade. His doctor said it was just arthritis and the lump was a pulled muscle. The medicine he gave him did not help. So my mom took him to a orthopdeic specialist. He had x-rays done that showed nothing. He then had a cat scan done. Then a mri and cat scan. Last he did a bone scan and told my mom it looked cancer to take him to his regular doctor. By this time my dad could not even walk. We had to take him by ambulance to the er. They did a cat scan and found part of his right lung had collasped. They transfered him to a better hospital. That was the first of August they found out it is small cell lung cancer. It had at that time already moved into his brain, his bones, and he has tumors on his spinal column. They started three weeks of radiation then did one day of chemo. He got so sick we took him last Tuesday and his blood pressure was 50 something over 30 something. His liver started failing. He spent a week in the hospital and got out saturday. The doctor said they could not do anymore chemo or radiation because he would never make it through. They have called in hospice. The doctor told my mom more or less that it has gone to far. It could be two weeks or longer. No one knows how long. My boys are all in school and helping me when I break down.
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