Perpetual Chemo~~How many Doses can one really take?
HI. My father has end stage prostate cancer with mets to the bone. He is on his 12th round of Taxitare chemotherapy. It is keeping the cancer at bay, however, each round of chemo takes more of the man I knew away with each dose. The cure will kill him before the cancer. I have offered Hospice and he thinks that will bury him, even though hospice has changed dramatically in the last few years, he can even go to chemo with it. My father sounds terrible, the side effects are terrible and I am wondering will or no will really how many consecutive treatments can one human take before the spirit is crushed. In the beginning the side effects weren't bad but now they are god awful.
Thanks for listening, any comment appreciated. Please Pray for Paul L. Lord it is in your hands do not let him suffer. Sincerely, Jenn
If things haven't gone from bad to worse well than I don't know what you would call this. I am living in hell. I always took good care of my father. I have been by his side for years after my parents divorced. I don't know the man that is at the controls now. Perpetual chemotherapy, and perpetual prednisone is not good for a person. Hell its poison. My dad is a good man, and Chemo brain is leaving him a shell of the man he once was. I swear he is pushing me away so I don't have to see the end result of what it to be of him. But how do you really know when you are dealing with so much at one time. My father blames everything on me now and abuses me verbally. He has a new wife and plays both of us for a fool. I am tired and putting my own marriage in danger for sake of standing by my father at his biggest time of need.
