ArtsieSteph's dad's cancer superthread

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ArtsieSteph

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So dad has been having issues like I used to have. Where he basically starts feeling like he has doubts about like everything he believes. He is still detoxing off the lorazepam and he's never had to deal with this so it's really tough for him.
 
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So dad has been having issues like I used to have. Where he basically starts feeling like he has doubts about like everything he believes. He is still detoxing off the lorazepam and he's never had to deal with this so it's really tough for him.

Let your dad know and remind him that the Lord is faithful and just. He knows what we go through he knows our thoughts and troubles and fears our doubts and short comings. Let him rest in the finished work and wonders of Christ Jesus.
 

ArtsieSteph

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Ok! Dad has literally been sleeping all day because Benadryl. So I definitely can say he's resting
 

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Dad is on his 13th round of chemo and it still sorks. Praise God. He still is very weary though after each cycle.
 
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Have they said how many he will need?
 

JosephsDreams

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If the public only really knew what was going on in the conventional western medical complex; then just about no one would elect to do chemo.
Sad what they are doing to good and decent family oriented and God fearing people who don't know better.

We keep praying.
 
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Steph....what is the reduction of the cancer?
 
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If the public only really knew what was going on in the conventional western medical complex; then just about no one would elect to do chemo.
Sad what they are doing to good and decent family oriented and God fearing people who don't know better.

We keep praying.

Sometimes it's better to keep your opinions to yourself!
 

JosephsDreams

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Its not an opinion.
And I am not a believer in surpressing information.
It angers me what they are doing.
I hope and pray that this has a favorable conclusion.
And that maybe someone else reading this thread who is in a similar situation or may be in the future will give pause before proceeding thusly.
They want to hush us up. The bible says my people perish for lack of knowledge.
 
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Truth up. Yes, chemo is poison. Cancer kills people. Chemo kills cancer because it is poison administered specifically and properly to do that. Most intelligent people know this going in, because doctors do tell them.

Steph, do NOT listen to Joseph. He's a conspiracy theorist who believes he is God's gift to mankind. His concepts of healthy living are dangerous, because he fills his mind with conspiracies about the infamous "they." And then he brings up the vague bible to support him propping himself up. (nothing related to what the Bible is talking about, but just enough to sound religious.) Far better to trust your dad's oncologist and your dad, than to be filled with this game Joseph plays.
 

ArtsieSteph

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Basically there are several chemos available, all have pretty bad side effects and over time bascially run down your body. BUT it cannot be said that God hasn't used the chemo because now the tumor has shrunken so much that they basically can't see it on a scan. God has helped that chemo to just blast it out. As far as being cured, the chemo doesn't. But, the immunotherapy that dad might be given soon can lead to remission.

God is good.
 
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Miri

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Praying for you and your family Steph.
Remember to take care of yourself too in all this.

God bless
x
 

ArtsieSteph

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hahahaha there in lies the problem. I have to learn to take care of me during this. Which is funny because caring for someone else I would have never thought it was teaching me to care for myself too
 

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This is just for my own personal self.. I would never do chemo or rads. I can't fathom putting poison into your body, to kill the poison (cancer) that's already there, all in an attempt to HOPEFULLY get better, but have no real assurance that it will work..

Glad to hear daddy's doing well, Steph. :)
 
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Basically there are several chemos available, all have pretty bad side effects and over time bascially run down your body. BUT it cannot be said that God hasn't used the chemo because now the tumor has shrunken so much that they basically can't see it on a scan. God has helped that chemo to just blast it out. As far as being cured, the chemo doesn't. But, the immunotherapy that dad might be given soon can lead to remission.

God is good.
 
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Basically there are several chemos available, all have pretty bad side effects and over time bascially run down your body. BUT it cannot be said that God hasn't used the chemo because now the tumor has shrunken so much that they basically can't see it on a scan. God has helped that chemo to just blast it out. As far as being cured, the chemo doesn't. But, the immunotherapy that dad might be given soon can lead to remission.

God is good.
Steph I see the Lord working wonders in you....praise him for you are so blessed sis. When I started my treatments the Lord gave me a proverb to think about. " Can a man take fire in his bosom and not be burned" the answer is yes with God all things are possible. So I went through the chemo and radiation treatments as a witness of faith . I had the option of no radiation but to try a new type of chemo. In a test group. I declined.
At the end of the 30 days of radiation I was hurting....I won't lie. When I went to surgery they told me that the tumor was obliterated.
When I got out of recovery to be transferred to my room bed there were 4 people to help pick me up gingerly as I had 5 holes in my tummy after 6 hrs of surgery and a ostomy. With a few attempts to position me comfortable and me becoming more coherent to what they were attempting to do I picked myself up with my arms in sitting position legs straight out and placed myself on the other bed. All 4 people stood there wide eyed and totally amazed.
2 of the four said that they had never seen this ever in there yrs In the field. Between you and I I did this with no effort there was one who picked me up and placed me they did not see.....Jesus.

Ya see sis that's why I believe the Lord chooses how he will heal. If he will heal. We must trust in his ways for he and he alone knows the beginning and the end. If we are to be a witness of him then what ever the out come life or death, a touch or treatment, full recovery or a limp or thorn in the side, let it be for his glory.


Loving ya sis....potter
 
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Can I say Steph that you have been remarkable in all of this.
Trying to do what is right, putting your dads needs first, trying to understand him.

You have shown courage and patience far beyond your age. :)
 
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Yes she has praise god