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Waiting for …….. but

 My father wasn’t active and the recovery wasn’t as fast as it happened after 1st surgery. He was so weak yet he was trying to cooperate by taking medication on time and eating food at regular intervals.

He complained about pain again but we made him settle for a couple of days and slowly conveyed that there was a recurrence and so there was pain. I also told him that there was a lot of hope and need not panic at this moment. All strived to make him recover soon. We were waiting for his recovery but

It was the 8th day after we got discharged from the hospital and it was around 10 PM. He vomited (it was massive vomiting). I was shocked and trembled in fear because I doubted (was it adhesions again?). After that huge vomit, he couldn’t control his hiccups, we didn’t understand what was happening. We gave him baclofen tablets and the hiccups were slowly controlled.

After this huge episode, I understood that he was losing hope and feeling so much pain inside about what was happening to him. I believe that Cancer is a kind of disease that is more of a mental disease rather than a physical and the disease aims to lose hope in life. We all tried to stay behind him but his health ran away from us. He was not able to take food inside because of nausea.

We went to the hospital for a doctor's consultation and the doctor asked us to get admitted, they said that they wanted to aspirate and did it using a nasogastric (ryles)tube. The doctor said that let’s examine whether it is because of surgery complications or not. They placed him under IV fluids again and treated him with some cefixime injections and the doctor also suggested considering another cycle of chemo. My father had hardly eaten anything for the past 30 days and we as well as he didn’t even give a thought to the chemo cycle, considering its side effects. The doctor had advised us to visit a gastroenterologist once.

We decided to take him to one of the best gastroenterologist hospitals in India, which is in Hyderabad. We made the appointment with a chief doctor there but unfortunately, they had assigned us to one of his team doctors.

Doctor………..

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