I Just want to find hope and hear hopeful stories on here of people who have known family members or friends - who managed to recover from "terminal" cancer.
My father has recovered from stage 4 prostate cancer that has spread to his spine, damaged his spine and nerve and got him paralysed from chest down.
He was given very little chance to ever walk again. He had a surgery on his spine, and received radiotherapy and hormone therapy. 4 weeks later he started to recover slowly slowly and went to a rehab. ( didn't receive any other therapy after this) a year later today he is walking on his own for short distance, relearning to drive, and 100% cancer free.
Thanks so much for this post that I've just seen. My grandad is 83. Has been fit and healthy all his life and walks miles every day. He suddenly lost use of his legs and they found a tumour on his spine. It has spread from the prostate and so this is very similar to your dad as my grandad has stage 4 cancer.
He has a blast of radiotherapy which means he has regained the use of his legs etc but now has to slowly learn to walk again. Can I ask how old your dad is please? Your post have given me hope as it's early days and we are in the dark at the moment other than knowing he is having hormone injections.
Thanks so much for this post that I've just seen. My grandad is 83. Has been fit and healthy all his life and walks miles every day. He suddenly lost use of his legs and they found a tumour on his spine. It has spread from the prostate and so this is very similar to your dad as my grandad has stage 4 cancer.
He has a blast of radiotherapy which means he has regained the use of his legs etc but now has to slowly learn to walk again. Can I ask how old your dad is please? Your post have given me hope as it's early days and we are in the dark at the moment other than knowing he is having hormone injections.
My father is 65. He was diagnosed last november(stage 4 already). Lost his ability to move from chest down one day in April, then he had a surgery and then received 4 weeks radiotherapy and hormone therapy, and then spent about 5-6 months on rehab.
He started to feel his body straigth after his surgery, before he received any treatment. Still could not move. Within days he was able to move his foot only, and about 2 months later he was able to stand up sit down and do a few steps with help. Then as the time went on his spine recovered and he has got better and better every week. He also had zoledronic acid infusion that helps in spine/bone recovery. He also trained a lot, forced himself to walk as much as he could 2-3 times every day, now using a stepper and a row machine as well.
He just had an mri recently, his spine is still not fully recovered which is why he still cant walk a lot, but thankfully the cancer has gone completely, which is very surprising as he didn't have much treatment, and as far as I know there is not much chance to recover from stage 4 cancer.
I really hope your grandad will be okay too soon! So far it's very similar to what my father went through.
If you have any further questions please let me know x
