So sorry for you, Nick. And now you and your family are in my prayers.
Allan
On 12/30/13, 7:26 PM, Niclas (Gmail) wrote:
Thank you for your prayers guys. Maybe they did a difference. This
morning he was quite alert and didn't settle for his youghurt, but
wanted to have the second half of my sisters shrimp sandwich too.
During the day he was like I said earlier... nothing or a little
better, but not worse. But a couple of hours ago I got that
international phone call from my sister that I was afraid of...
He had felt pretty good during his last day. It was not like that
horrible night when I was with him. He just didn't wake up from that
nap. Maybe it was your prayers...
Thanks.
/Nick
On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 2:49 PM, J Mck <jmck1...@yahoo.com
<mailto:jmck1...@yahoo.com>> wrote:
Nick
Our prayers are with you all.
Jerry McKaughan
P.O. Box 85
Pottsville, AR 72858
www.caddisflyfishers.org <http://www.caddisflyfishers.org>
On Sunday, December 29, 2013 10:17 AM, Niclas (Gmail)
<n.runars...@gmail.com <mailto:n.runars...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Just been in England for two weeks, where the sister of my
(English) fiancé has got a stage 4 lung cancer. She was going to
get married before she got too weak and we were attending it. But
this mail isn't about her... yet.
Three days after coming home from England I was at work when I got
a phone call... "Your father is really really sick now." So I just
packed my bags again and booked a ticket to Iceland, where I have
my (Icelandic) father's side of the family. He's got a stage 4
prostate cancer and has now been placed at a hospice in Kopavogur.
Lately his health has been like a roller coaster and he has gone
in and out of hospital. Now he had gotten an infection and was
also constantly losing blood.
His cancer had now spread to the bones and the treatment didn't do
anything anymore. But an alternate treatment was planned, though
he had to be both stronger and more stabile than he was for the
moment. So he hadn't been placed at that hospice for the same
reason as the other patients there, to get as much life quality in
their last days. It was just better for him to be there for now.
I had been there for 5 days and my sister for 2 and we sat alone
with him. The fever rised and everything got worse. The situation
reached the level where the nurses got other faces, offered us a
book with the title "At The End" to prepare us... and finally also
offered us a priest to help us with support. And when people with
extensive experience of dying patients are doing things like
that... you more or less know what to expect and we called his
fiancé and my other sister. So for a couple of hours we all then
sat there looking at his breathing and wondering if there would
come another breath after that... when he suddenly stopped moaning
and started to breath normally again and finally fell asleep. The
man surprised everyone, including staff... and when we came back
the next day we couldn't believe our eyes when we entered the room
and saw him in sitting in his chair laughing at the TV.
I had to go back home to Sweden the 23:th. Christmas Eve at home
is the price of having children. But daily reports from my family
has said that after this horrible night he has slowly but steadily
gotten better and better... one foot in front of the other... and
optimism has found its way into us again. Maybe he would get a
chance to get that treatment after all. Isolating his cancer to
his bones could give him a considerable amount of time.
But this morning I talked to my sister. Yesterday her husband
(also a doctor) had spoken to my father's doctor, who said
something none of us had expected after seen him "climbing" like
this. We should hope for weeks rather than months. My sister
didn't catch the reason why but obviously something still is very
wrong, despite the looks of it.
This got a little bit longer than planned. Making long stories
short has never been my field. The only thing I wanted with it was
to ask for prayers... that this probably rather short time that he
has left will be as pain free as possible.
/Nick
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