In the beginning
Your child has cancer. Words no parent expects to hear. But I did.
The boy was diagnosed in March 2005 at age 15 months with a brain tumour - an Ependymoma to be precise. Apparently, he only had weeks left to live. Now, eighteen months later, he has had brain surgery, a feeding tube permanently put in place in his stomach and a trachaeostomy. He's been through two lots of chemotherapy and radiotherapy.
But the tumour is still there. So, faced with the choice of no giving him any treatment and letting the tumour take its course or trying to get rid of the tumour through two lots of dangerous brain surgery, the wife and I have decided to accept the risks and go for surgery.
This is going to be a record of what happens, for me, for the unknown future.
The boy was diagnosed in March 2005 at age 15 months with a brain tumour - an Ependymoma to be precise. Apparently, he only had weeks left to live. Now, eighteen months later, he has had brain surgery, a feeding tube permanently put in place in his stomach and a trachaeostomy. He's been through two lots of chemotherapy and radiotherapy.
But the tumour is still there. So, faced with the choice of no giving him any treatment and letting the tumour take its course or trying to get rid of the tumour through two lots of dangerous brain surgery, the wife and I have decided to accept the risks and go for surgery.
This is going to be a record of what happens, for me, for the unknown future.
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