a year ago, my dad was diagnosed with prostate cancer. unfortunately, he got the news at a very difficult time and due to several deaths in the family and other rough times, he had other priorities to take care of before he could take care of it. finally, early this year, he started exploring his options. the two main options he had, surgery and radiation therapy, each had some really harsh risks and dangers associated with them. deciding on one or the other was an agonizing decision that troubled my parents for months. this was definitely one of the hardest decision that a person could ever have to make.<\/p>\n
finally, after debating back and forth, my dad decided to get Electro-Beam Therapy, a nice term meaning basically that they blast the patient w\/ radiation and hope that the radiation kills the cancer cells with as little impact on the healthy cells as possible. although probably safer than the surgery option, radiation is pretty dangerous and can have very serious side affects. this treatment goes on for 7 weeks, 5 days a week, and is usually pretty hard on a person during that time, even if they never get any of the permanent side affects.<\/p>\n
today was my dad’s first day. i still haven’t heard back from him as to how it went. i really hope that the next 2 months go as smoothly as they possibly can for him… *sigh*<\/p>\n
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