It was the worst I have ever felt. We had just basically learned that my dad would eventually die from cancer, and my sister ha disappeared. I was scared and hurt. I mean after all I was only fourteen and I was stuck there trying to comfort my mom when really all I wanted to do was go sit in a corner and cry. My sister later apologized for just leaving me with my mom. My dad came home the Sunday after his Friday surgery which was pretty amazing, he even watched the Colts play the Rams with me after we got home even though he was really tired.
This was over a year ago, and since then my dad had been hospitalized with blood clots, been doing continual intravenous chemotherapy treatments, had two separate cataract surgeries, and he is still doing pretty well, even with everything that he has gone through over the last few years. Chemo still barely affects him, pretty much all it does is make him tired, which still amazes me after all the horror stories I have heard about chemo.
Since the surgery my dad has done extremely well and after every MRI, which my dad still has every three months, we still hold our breath, and my dad has been declared “stable” every time since the surgery. My dad has fought through the one of the most deadly type of cancers out there with his Glioblastoma that he had back in2003 and a type of cancer that will probably claim his life that should have been a cakewalk after the Glioblastoma. He is my hero because he made a promise to us all when he first got sick and so far he had held true to that promise, that cancer would not beat him, like it did my grandpa and so many other people before and since then.
Since my dad was first diagnosed most of the people my dad first underwent treatments with at Hux cancer center in Terre Haute have passed. It is pretty scary and pretty amazing at the same time when you have a doctor tell you your dad should not be here, I have heard this a billion times. My dad is a true miracle.
My dad’s not the only person I’m close to that has been diagnosed with cancer, but he is definitely the one person who has had the biggest effect on my life, I love the fact that even through all the crazy, horrible crap that has happened my dad had still managed to always be there for me and help my mom run our small business.
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