Alisa R.
I need strength
Aug 06, 2009
On Thursday July 30th, 2009 my father Dave passed away, he was 60 years old. My dad was my best friend. He was diagnosed with lung cancer in February and was doing chemo and radiation. He was doing well or so we thought, the chemo made his blood sugar (he was diabetic since 1990 but it was always under control) shoot up to 1200! The nurses said they've never seen anyone with blood sugar that high alive or dead. So the high blood sugar made him have 3 grand mal seizures and acute kidney failure. He also developed pnemonia on his right lung and had the tumor on the right so his lungs were only working at 30%. He went into the hospital July 25th Saturday and passed away Thursday morning. I miss him more then anything in the world. He asked me every week how much weight I had lost and even if it was only like a 2 pound difference he always said "God i am so proud of you for doing this" he was my own personal cheerleader and now he is gone. I am not going to let this sidetrack me. I will keep doing great because I know he is still proud of me. I'm facing a lot of stress now because I am taking care of his wife of one year who doesn't know how to do much on her own and I had to get put on a payment plan for his funeral because he had no life insurance or anything. Social security said his wife isn't old enough to get widow's benefits (she has to be 60 and she's 53) so now there is no SS money coming in and my wife and I have to move in with her to help her pay the bills until their house sells, IF it ever does. It's one thing after another. Please pray for us.
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Union City, NJ
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02/11/2009
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Jan 05, 2007
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