Posted on 10/01/2006 11:01:23 AM PDT by LisaMalia
Please keep him in your prayers.......
God please be with our brother.
... And sister.
Thanks for letting us know. Prayers being sent for Common Tator -- enjoy reading his articles!
I have posted this before. But I want you to hear it. And tell your Dad about me too.From here, AMERICA - The Right Way!! (Day 653) [Remember the Trade Center!!]
It was in August 1997 that I was dignosed with large cell cancer. My oncologist told me I had one chance in 3 of living until christmas. I had tumors the size of large grapefruit. I too heard that aggressive treatment line. I was certain I was dead. I slept most of the time. I did not want to see people. My wife, my children, every person I saw looked at me as if I was dying.
But then several weeks into the terrible exhausting treatments I was in the waiting room to see the doctor. It was terrible. Nurses who treated me never really looked at me. It was like they didn't want to know me... I was dying. I knew they couldn't stand to be my friend... and then have that friend die. I was dying. I could not be a friend or even a person they knew. I was a dying cancer patient. And Oh does that hurt.
I waited in the room when a nurse who never looked me in the eye came in. She winked at me and said. I am not allowed to tell you what your cat Scan shows... but you are going to like it.
When the doctor came in, he told me the cancer was shrinking. Slowly over months the cancer shrunk. Three months after I was supposed to be dead, I was still alive. The doctor said, after examining another of many catscan reports, you are cancer free. The cancer is gone.
Then came the warning about how it comes back and the real test would be if I could be cancer free 5 years from diagnosis. Well I am cancer free 5 years after diagnosis.
They have my piture on the wall at the hospital cancer center too. The nurses hug me when I go in for my check ups. They could be my friend when they knew I was going to live.
But for months I was at deaths door. Everyone in my family treated me as if I were dying. They did everything for me. I felt like a walking corpse. It is terrible when people look at you like you are dying.
Then a day came that I will never forget A day that told me I was well. That I was just husband and Dad again.. A living person that had faults and could be told about it.
Mrs tator came into the kitchen her hands on her hips and fire in her eyes. I was told in no uncertain terms what I was to do with my dirty underwear and socks. The bathroom floor was not a repository for my dirty clothes.. She was not my slave. I could dang(I think she said dang) well pick up my clothes, sort them, and put them in the proper baskets in the laundry room .... Do you hear me I am talking to you!!! She said.
It was the most wonderful thing anyone has ever said to me.
Don't give up hope. Help him fight. Help him keep his humanity. All is not lost. Faith does heal. It is a wondrous thing. But help him believe he is going to beat it. It is so very hard to fight the cancer when everyone thinks you are dying and you are the only one that thinks you may not. 405 posted on 11/04/2002 10:34:06 PM EST by Common Tator [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 389 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]
Prayers UP Bump!
How wonderful! He is in my prayers. May he continue to heal and recover fully.
prayer bump
Thank you for the update!
Best wishes for his homecoming,
and prayers for his recovery.
Prayers for you, too, LM.
You are a wonderful woman.
Get well soon Tator, so that we and others can enjoy more of your commentationating.
Awsome post (#507) thanks.
Will keep the prayers up!
Continued prayer for you and CT.
I'm praying for CT and please give him a hug from me, when you see him.
Great news! Thank you for the update!
BTTT
More prayers going up for CT!
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