Hi everyone
I'm on here because my dad has been diagnosed with Plasmacytoma in his sinuses. It's been a huge shock to us all, dad's rarely been to the docs in his life- he's 66 now and was, up until last Xmas, playing five a side football at work once a week!
Things have changed rapidly since the tumor started to grow towards the end of last year. It grew so fast at such a pace it shocked every doctor he's seen, and has had to have chemo, radio and surgery – the latter he had last week. Today they've told him they managed to get most of the tumor out, but still a small amount remains..
I have no idea what the next stage will be, radio again? He's already had 5 weeks of radio every day – so I wasn't sure how much more they could give him safely. Does anyone know?
I have felt, over the last several months, on tenterhooks. After that horrendous phone call from dad at the hospital in January after they told him it was cancer – we were all expecting them to say it was a sinus infection! First time I've ever heard him cry. It's truly awful to see your dad like that, and to have my baby son see his granpa suffering. I have learned very much so, that life can be horrible sometimes, and there's no point blaming, or trying to find an answer. You just have to move on through it the best you can and look to brighter days ahead.
Sorry to have ranted, but I feel like I've needed to get that off my chest!
Blessings and healing to you all, cos I know we are not alone in this xxx
tom 13 years, 3 months ago.
