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My Dad Has Cancer

I regret my long hiatus from this blog.  My family has been going through the most horrible and stressful year of our lives, and continuing the blog has just been overwhelming. Last April 23, 2015, my father was diagnosed with a brain tumor called a glioblastoma that is the most aggressive and fatal of its category. These tumors are projected to kill their sufferers within 14 or so months according to Dr. Google (which the real doctors tell you not to look at). It's just horrible. He was 59 years old, working full time and living a normal life. He had surgery, radiation and oral chemotherapy. He was entered into an immunotherapy vaccine clinical trial. Treatments wiped out his immune system, depleted his energy and eventually he became hemiparetic (paralyzed on one side) from the swelling and scar tissue in the brain. In October 2015, his oncologist gave him 6 weeks to live. We were looking at planning a funeral before Christmas. Two weeks after that grim prognosis, however, things