Fluid in the Lungs

July 31, 2006


Adenocarcinoma of the lungs, the killer cancer. Appan has been diagnosed of the same a few months back. The doctors gave him three months. Start chemo and maybe he will get another three, but that is it. Then the complication set in, his kidneys had failed and he needed dialysis to lower the creatin level and only then could we start chemo. Dialysis they said could send him into a coma as the cancer had spread and made him too weak. Every one felt it was just throwing good money away.
Though personally I wouldn’t have cared, good money or bad, if I had even a penny to my name I would have spend it all on him. It was what I had done before and would willingly do again, but marriage and no job has made a beggar in ways I just cannot imagine.

Currently on ayurveda, he developed breathlessness and has been hospitalized. He has developed Pleural effusion (fluid in the pleural cavity around the lungs). They removed part of the fluid and the rest they will remove today. I talked to him yesterday and he seemed stronger than he has in a very long time.
I pray every night for his recovery. He is just 65, too young too die. He is wonderful storyteller. He made a lot of mistakes but he has been a great father.