Re: OT: Superior Vena Cava Syndrome

[nick markowitz <nmarkowitz@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mar 21, 12:21=A0pm, tourman <robercampb...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mar 21, 3:21=A0am, "Robert L Bass" <rob...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
>
> > A few of the folks in ASA have offered me prayer support in
> > my battle with cancer. I guess I need to ask you for that help
> > now.
>
> > Earlier this evening, while everything seemed normal (well,
> > "normal" for me is something very different from most), I
> > began to feel a new sensation. All of a sudden I started to
> > develop some strange, inflated lumps on both sides of my
> > jaw and other places. Edema set in very quickly. When this
> > happened in the past it was gradual. This time it was as if
> > someone had pushed a tube into my upper chest and face
> > and was just pumping fluid into me.
>
> > I called the hospice and they sent a nurse over quickly.
> > After a brief exam, she called the doctor and got the answer.
> > I have Superior Vena Cava Syndrome, a dangerous side
> > effect of the cancer.
>
> > One of the tumors in my chest is pressing against the wall
> > of the main blood vessel from the head and upper body to
> > the heart. I need radiation right away. Without it, according
> > to WebMD, "patients with superior vena cava syndrome
> > due to a malignant cause survive only 30 days without
> > radiation."
>
> > The strange thing about this is I wasn't feeling anything out
> > of the norm and I still don't have even minor discomfort.
> > Yet this thing was rapidly building up in my chest. =A0I took
> > some additional Rx while the nurse was here and it seems
> > to have helped a bit but the swelling is still significant. =A0It's
> > a little nerve-wracking, to say the least. I'd really appreciate
> > it if you guys will pray.
>
> > Thanks,
> > Robert
>
> RHC: Know that you are in our prayers my friend. Its surprising how a
> cancer diagnosis brings into sharp focus what is really important in
> life. It gives you a strength you never know you had and provides a
> clarity of vision to know what is merely window dressing, and doesn't
> matter a bit.
>
> Those who wont or cant "forgive" silly and inconsequential newsgroup
> "transgressions" are of no importance to you. You have made peace with
> those people in your life that count, and that is the only thing that
> matters......
>
> Please keep us in the loop and God bless....

It never seems to end Bob I had to go back in for surgery my self from
the bowel resection
hope allgoes well with the radiation i still have side effects from it