My father, at 78, has been losing weight for two years - so I have been
pushing to get what we thought was uncontrolled diabetes sorted. Today he
got his biopsy and he has stage 2 prostate cancer. They are doing a bone
scan, and hopefully he will be clear there.



I think they might suggest surgery - we will hear in three or four weeks
time.



Fortunately I was with him when they told him the news - he seems so
resigned to it.



Our first task was to get him talking about it - he tends to dodge the
issue. But I think talking helps - and he is getting heart-warming messages
of love and support from the family.



We are all terminal - and he has had a good life. We talked of how lucky we
had been. We also talked of that little 8 year old child I saw with cancer
and how life is so unfair to such children - robbed of lives before they
have started.



Feeling lucky and counting one's blessings - well I am sure that helps.
Looking on the bright side. I feel I have been blessed so far - but someday
my time will come also - but this last year - well I cannot complain, I am
so lucky.



But I am hoping and praying that he will beat that beast. He is so frail I
fear the worst - but there is HOPE always



Love and Healing


Ian



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