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Wife dying from cancer treatment.

Ukkram
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My wife was on her 26th radio and 2nd chemo treatment to a small local tumour in the soft pattate but due to the treatment she had many throat infections and could no longer eat.

She had a a tube installed to her stomach and we tried our best to feed her but she complained of constipation and would not allow more than 600 ml of food per day and 500 ml of water. Her mind and memory was slowly deteriating.

This dehydrated her to the extent of causing a cardiac arrest and she has been in ICU for 2 weeks and has not been lucid since.

They upped her food intake to 2L per day and her water to 1,2L. I do not expect her to survive but I do believe in miricales. 

If she does die then it would be the treatment and not the cancer.

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    Hi Ukkram,

    Thanks for sharing your incredibly sad story. I wish I could offer you hope or advice, but I'm just another cancer patient. I hope you get the miracle that you hope for.

     

    Good luck and best wishes.

    Dave

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    I am so sorry to hear about your wife.  I myself had severe complications to the chemo, to the point where I could not swallow my own saliva.  I was hospitalized for one week and after extensive tests I was diagnosed with thrush. 

    Thanks to my church family and many prayers the thrush was treated and controlled where I was able to swallow again. (Praise God)

    Having cancer is hard but having the LORD in your life is what makes you strong.

    I will pray for you and your wife.  What is your wife's name?

     

     

     

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    Me and my kids were convinced my wife would die but after 6 weeks in hospital she has miraculously healed to the extent that she now watches YT movies in bed.

    They will give her physio so she can be strong enough to come home. 

    I do not speak the language here so I'm not sure how they will treat her cancer now. She had 6 more radiations to do. Perhaps they will start all over again.:( :(

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    Hi Ukkram,

    That is such good and unexpected news! I hope your wife can come home to your family soon. 

    Best wishes

    Dave

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    My wife really surprised us. Pneumonia, sepsis and cardiac arrest. Four weeks in ICU and now back home. She still has mouth infections and I feed her via the tube. 

    She has improved enough to walk about without my aid and the wheelchair has become a garment hanger.

    We will see in a month if the 27 of the 33 prescribed treatments were enough.

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