Re: Cancer, Chemo, and Diabetes
- From: "rk" <rksays@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 15:49:06 -0400
"Will, T2" <wmmckee@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| Hello friends,
|
| I debated a while before posting this, but if what I am about to say
| can do any of you any good I am happy to tell the story.
|
| A very close friend of mine died last weekend, in King George County,
| Virginia. He was only about 47, or so.... very much in the prime of
| life, so to speak. About 2 1/2 weeks ago, my friend was diagnosed
| with esophageal cancer. Yes, it had progressed to his lymph nodes, and
| there appeared to be some, but limited, liver involvement. Then last
| week, a bone scan revealed that it was also in a hip bone.
|
| My friend's first round of chemo occurred only about a week ago, of
| less, and he immediately suffered extreme diabetic hyperglycemia
| (until the chemo, he was not deemed diabetic), and he went into renal
| failure. With insulin, they stabalized his bloood glucose, and his
| kidneys were able to re-start. Then, suddenly on Thursday, his
| conditiion deteriorated, as the cancer began to destroy his vital
| organs, and he died on Saturday....
|
| The history of my friend's illness and demise occurred over a
| remarkably short period of time. Only a month ago, he was fine, and
| then he started feeling sick about three weeks ago, and went in for a
| "checkup". It just goes to show that none of us knows how much time we
| have left, and how delicate our health really is....
|
| One very interesting thing for me was the sudden onset of acute
| diabetes, after the administration of chemo. I guess no one really
| knows at this point, but it was like the chemo simply "knocked out" my
| friend's pancreas. Something else that comes to mind is that my
| mother's diabetes did not manifest itself, until after she had chemo
| back in the 60s. Still, it seems that chemotherapy does help save
| lives, and I am quite aware that some of you have experienced it.
|
| Coincidentally, this week, I am reading a psychology book one of the
| the themes of which is that nothing of reality is really like it
| seems.
|
|
| Will, T2
I'm sorry for the loss of your friend Will. My step-fathers mother went in
for some type of surgery, I forgot what it was now. It was long before he
joined our family. Anyhow, mid-way through her surgery she went into
heart failure which was a result of DKA. Her glucose apparently was to
have been just fine during pre-op. Something they gave her they figured
caused her pancreas to fail while on the table. Anyhow, they weren't able
to save her. She was only 43 at the time. It's true, you never know how
long you have. You can get hit by a bus at any time.
rk, t1
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