I know there is no answer to his question. My father has had lung cancer now for a year. Went through the radiation/chemo. Then the Chemo alone. Went into remission and lived to see his 50th wedding anniversary. Then in December started getting sick again and then in Jan,Feb and first of March had been hospitalized four times for fluid in the pleural. His 4th trip required a chest tube with a drainage tube into a chamber. They got 1500cc of fluid out. The time before that they sent it to the Moffit Cancer center in Tampa , close to where he lives anyway its cancer. Now it has mastisized ( excuse the spelling) anyway, he is very ill. I seen my father in Sept. and now I am here now from Alabama and do not intend to leave untill he passes away. His weight has dropped significantly, his appetite has subsided and his interests have now changed. We have hospice coming in to check on him and he is on meds and oxygen, He wont take loratab or the oxycotin (torpedo pill) as he calls it. He is still doing okay with the pain. Tylenol is all I have seen him take. He complains of pain in is shoulders and when he coughs in his left lung where the cancer is. Now mestasized means spread. Now his Oncologist is a cold hearted blank. He no longer wants to see him and has no need to cause he has refused any more treatments. Actually there is no more but more chemo and trial drug Iressa that he will have to take. But no cure. So prolonging his death is something he doesnt want to do. Now my dad called me to his side and held my hand and said "sweet baby, I know it may be hard for you but will you get on line and see, please see what my final days will be like and what to expect. please baby" just breaking my heart. I cant tell him , first only god knows how long he has and with the cancer taking over his left lung and his heart is in so much stress his rate is 100-125 continuously. So with the pulmonary artery damaged from the radiation and he had a pulmonary embolism and is on cumidine (blood thinner) for preventing another one. He also has interstitual lung disease and COPD in both lungs, His lung profusion tests came back bad to where surgery in the beginning was not an option. I will miss him so much when he leaves me but I took care of my Grandmother and watched her suffer and he was there too. And his greatest fear is we will have to watch him suffer. He wants to go quick and prays every night that god will take him quick. He lost 10 lbs in five days and his fingers are really flat and the nail beds are blue and he continuously has sweating spells and we live in florida its 80' and he wants the heat on. My sister volunteers at hospice and we have a book on the final days and we feel he has a few months if he goes slowly. Today we got him in the shower chair and he felt so good to take a shower but it wore him out so we had to put him back to bed and then let him rest before he got dressed. He then let me shave him with his electric shaver and we got him to the living room and he read some in his bible and then we noticed him sleeping so we put him back to bed. Oh I am rambling on. can someone let me know about how long he has. I know God will take him when it is his time to go. But maybe someone can help me see the signs . Thank you And God Bless
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