He was diagnosed with Colon cancer four years ago. They operated and did chemo and believed it would not return. He had colonoscopy's and blood tests over the past four years and everything was clean. This time it apparently started on the outside of the colon, did not get inside the colon but collapsed part of it therefore creating the vomiting etc. The surgeon who opened him up last week said the cancer was all over his stomach and intestines now and there was nothing he could do that would not endanger his life, so he closed him up. Dad can have chemo as long as the blood tests and whatever other tests they do come back positive, if not, doctor says they will not do it. The chemo will only extend his life but it cannot cure the cancer. So that's it in a nutshell. Kat, in Toronto we have a cancer hospital downtown but they can't do anything different than what is being suggested now. It's terminal and that's pretty much it. We can still pray for a miracle, and I am. My Dad has shown his strength through this whole thing and is determined to fight this to the end. So, you can never tell how long he'll hang on. I just hope that whatever time he has is meaningful to him and not filled with pain. Anyway, I'm about to leave to visit him and I'm taking the youngest with me. Thanks for thinking of me OT and Kat, it really does matter.
