Hi All,

I took Dad to his last radiology appointment today. We saw a doctor briefly, who told him that he WILL lose his hair, or at least some of it. She spoke about the possibility of what they call radio-surgery, which is a more targeted radiation to the brain tumors. If they did this, it wouldn't be until after the MRI on Oct. 30th, and only if they end up treating the lung cancer in some fashion. In addition, the doctor has reduced his steroid meds.

I don't think we have talked about his weight on the blog - he started all of this on 9/4/09 at 162, and today was 146.4. Although this is not good, he was as low as 145.3 on 9/21, so.....

His mood was matter of fact, and he did talk about his situation & dying, and that everyone has to go sometime........Says there is no point being angry, and where one might ask "why me?" he said "why not me"........We talked about how - if all goes well - everyone will have to experience the loss of their parents........How no one wants to, or should have to live with the loss of a child..........and unfortunately that our cousin is currently having to deal with that heartbreaking loss .......I agreed, but told him that that doesn't mean that it doesn't still suck.......We talked about the only way for any of us to avoid this, is to isolate ourselves from anyone we might care about, and obviously, that is no way to live life.......He thinks Mom is doing better..........Says there is nothing that he feels he needs or wants to do, and is enjoying sitting out on his patio reading.........Went to the club house on his scooter yesterday, and enjoyed that, but doesn't want to go when he knows there will be a big crowd there. As far as the weight, he says that he would be fine with 1/2 the amount he is eating, but is making himself eat all that Mom puts in front of him.


Hope that keeps you all updated. Keep him in your prayers....

Pat