Good news : My father in-law had a successful surgery removing the cancer at the colon. He is now recuperating and getting better by day. All our prayer is with him now and our hopes is that he will get well soon and recover from the surgery. The surgery took a long hour from 11.00 am to 6.30pm.
Bad news: The cancer has already spread to the liver and now in Stage IV. He has to undergo chemo after recovery.
I never had a close relatives with cancer before. I was being ignorance before this and thought that it could not happen to me or my closest. But now, I am awake and realize that this thing can happen to anybody and anytime. Current lifestyles has make it worst and what we consume are not healthy anymore. Awareness in our country is still low. Colon cancer is actually curable if detected in early stages. Detection is done by doing a colonscopy at health care center. Our problem is the cost to perform such procedure is costly and public awareness is non existense.
I do some research and find that surviving stage IV colon cancer is possible. But that is for overseas medical technology and awareness. Not sure with the survivor rate in this country. I hope that my father in-law can survive it! I care for him not less like my own father. He's the father of my husband. What more can i say..
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