MesquiteMan
Retired Head Moderator
Fellow IAP members,
At 60 years old my father was diagnosed with nasopharyngeal cancer. This is a rare cancer deep in the sinus cavity behind the eyes. The main link they have found in American's is exposure to plywood sawdust. My father was a framer and carpenter all of his life and never took any precautions.
He underwent chemotherapy and radiation treatment which really took a lot out of him. He ended up loosing his left eyesight, his sense of taste, his sense of smell, and most of his hearing. He has no saliva to speak of. The radiation also damaged a portion of his brain. The good thing, I guess, is that he has been in remission for the past couple of years. His quality of life has sucked but he has been alive.
Late last week, he was complaining of pain in his chest when he breathed. The took him in and did a CT scan. On the scan they found a golf ball sized mass on one of his lungs. He had a PET scan in December that showed he was still cancer free. Friday night he had a crash and started shivering uncontrollably and was telling me goodbye and that Jesus was there for him. He was burning up so I checked and he had a 104.5 fever. He did not want to go to the hospital so I told him he was either gong with me or in an ambulance but he was going.
We got him to the ER and they found that he now has pneumonia and the mass has gotten worse. They still are not sure what the mass is since they have not been able to do a biopsy but one of the Drs. took me aside and said they are 95% certain it is cancer and that his lungs have rapidly deteriorated over the last few days. It looks like he only has weeks left.
They will be doing the biopsy on Monday and we could use your prayers. We pray that it will either be non cancer and treatable or that it will take him quickly.
He was the epitome of good health. He never drank or smoked in his life and was a vegan. He has 99,002 miles on a bicycle over the last 8.5 years and has a better resting heart rate than I will ever have.
PLEASE, IF YOU DO NOT HAVE ADEQUATE DUST COLLECTION, GET SOME NOW!!! You can not go back and fix it. When he was diagnosed, I went out the next week and spent $2,000 on a top notch cyclone dust collection system that gets even the smallest stuff. I know that is a lot of money but just think about the possible alternatives. If you only have bags on your DC, you are doing yourself a disservice since all of the fine stuff that really hurts you is being pumped right back into your shop air.
Anyway, sorry to ramble on and burden you guys with this but you are all family to me and I needed someone to share with. I will try to keep everyone updated as I can but in the meantime, please send some prayers or thoughts our way, especially for my Mom who is really taking it hard. Thanks.
At 60 years old my father was diagnosed with nasopharyngeal cancer. This is a rare cancer deep in the sinus cavity behind the eyes. The main link they have found in American's is exposure to plywood sawdust. My father was a framer and carpenter all of his life and never took any precautions.
He underwent chemotherapy and radiation treatment which really took a lot out of him. He ended up loosing his left eyesight, his sense of taste, his sense of smell, and most of his hearing. He has no saliva to speak of. The radiation also damaged a portion of his brain. The good thing, I guess, is that he has been in remission for the past couple of years. His quality of life has sucked but he has been alive.
Late last week, he was complaining of pain in his chest when he breathed. The took him in and did a CT scan. On the scan they found a golf ball sized mass on one of his lungs. He had a PET scan in December that showed he was still cancer free. Friday night he had a crash and started shivering uncontrollably and was telling me goodbye and that Jesus was there for him. He was burning up so I checked and he had a 104.5 fever. He did not want to go to the hospital so I told him he was either gong with me or in an ambulance but he was going.
We got him to the ER and they found that he now has pneumonia and the mass has gotten worse. They still are not sure what the mass is since they have not been able to do a biopsy but one of the Drs. took me aside and said they are 95% certain it is cancer and that his lungs have rapidly deteriorated over the last few days. It looks like he only has weeks left.
They will be doing the biopsy on Monday and we could use your prayers. We pray that it will either be non cancer and treatable or that it will take him quickly.
He was the epitome of good health. He never drank or smoked in his life and was a vegan. He has 99,002 miles on a bicycle over the last 8.5 years and has a better resting heart rate than I will ever have.
PLEASE, IF YOU DO NOT HAVE ADEQUATE DUST COLLECTION, GET SOME NOW!!! You can not go back and fix it. When he was diagnosed, I went out the next week and spent $2,000 on a top notch cyclone dust collection system that gets even the smallest stuff. I know that is a lot of money but just think about the possible alternatives. If you only have bags on your DC, you are doing yourself a disservice since all of the fine stuff that really hurts you is being pumped right back into your shop air.
Anyway, sorry to ramble on and burden you guys with this but you are all family to me and I needed someone to share with. I will try to keep everyone updated as I can but in the meantime, please send some prayers or thoughts our way, especially for my Mom who is really taking it hard. Thanks.
