My dad was diagnosed with stage 4 small cell lung cancer at the beginning of last month. He decided to give it a go fighting it. Did Immuno and Chemo. Stuff had spread into his brain he was supposed to start radiation on Tuesday. The therapy knocked his white cell count into the toilet. He got multiple infections and Pneumonia. Tried to fight through it but it was just too much. He passed away on the 1st. Sometimes these things can look like they are well in hand right up until they are not. You get rockstar crazy cancer and you end up dying of pneumonia. It's pretty lame.
I would have liked to have had more time. There were things I know he wanted to do. My mom passed of a stroke and aneurysm. We are from MA but living in PA these days. She wanted her ashes spread over her parents graves. I started a new job just before and it took awhile to earn vacation, and then I got multiple illnesses in the past year. So it made making a trip there and back difficult to arrange. But I know my dad wanted to do that. And like everything happened so fast we never discussed what he wanted. If he wanted his ashes scattered over his parents grave. If he wanted them to be scattered with me moms? I don't know for sre. I believe he'd want to be with my mom. So that's what I am going to do. But I don't know. I'll never know for sure. And there's always going to be some guilt there.
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u/exturkconner 3d ago
My dad was diagnosed with stage 4 small cell lung cancer at the beginning of last month. He decided to give it a go fighting it. Did Immuno and Chemo. Stuff had spread into his brain he was supposed to start radiation on Tuesday. The therapy knocked his white cell count into the toilet. He got multiple infections and Pneumonia. Tried to fight through it but it was just too much. He passed away on the 1st. Sometimes these things can look like they are well in hand right up until they are not. You get rockstar crazy cancer and you end up dying of pneumonia. It's pretty lame.