Prayers

I am sorry to have to blog bad news but we really need your prayers. As most of you know my dad has been undergoing various treatments for cancer for a couple of years now. We thought after some surgery that everything was under control and taken care of. However, after a few months and scans my dad had a negative report, below is the email that he sent out which explains it better than I could.

Dear family & friends

The result of my PET scan done in December was not as good as we had hoped. It showed that the cancer has returned. Two years ago the primary was in the colon with secondaries in the liver. There are still two secondaries on the liver (one we knew about that showed up on a CT Scan and MRI Scan) and four more specks have shown up in my abdomen. My oncologist said that PET scans have improved so much that two years ago these would not even have showed so they are very small specks. That means we have some time before we have to make our next decisions. Right now I am feeling good and able to do everything. My oncologist’s opinion is that he cannot cure this and in view of side-effects of a second lot of chemotherapy we postpone any treatment. According to him it would be a matter of managing symptoms and controlling pain. We are thinking about all of this carefully before we meet with him later this month to give him my decision. I am finding it very hard right now as after surgery things were looking good. It has taken me a few days before I could even write this but we wanted you to know. We need your encouragement more than ever and again we ask for your prayers.

With our love & appreciation and best regards for 2009.

John & Irene

Again I am sorry for the bad news. We will keep you updated as things progress.