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... I feel as if every time I post lately it is with sadness. I'm sure it will even out soon but our family has really had a rough time.

I posted a while back to say that my father in law was ill with pancreatic cancer. They removed the tumour in late November and we were told they had "got it all". Well since then he has deteriorated and been unable to have the chemotherapy due to being so ill.

Recently he has been in and out of hospital with blood clots and then Thursday night he went back to hospital with pains and was confused etc. My husband rang me Thursday night to say there was no hope. I couldn't believe it. The cancer has spread throughout his lymphatic system and organs etc. Just 3 weeks ago his scan was clear! The doctors say it is an extremely aggressive cancer. On Friday he was given several days to live.

Saturday night he deteriorated quickly and his breathing was very irregular. The doctors felt he had hours left so we all stayed at the hospital all night and called in a chaplain etc. He made it through the night and on Sunday morning woke up and spoke! It was wonderful to be able to speak to him again and my son hugged and kissed his Poppy and gave him a teddy bear. The doctors think that maybe us all being there gave him the strength to come back for a while longer.

It's a waiting game and it's just so hard. He's only 55 years old and it's so unfair.

As far as our IVF story goes I am going for some surgery soon as the Doctors think I might have endometriosis as well as the PCOS now. I will be having a hysteroscopy, a laparoscopy, a curette and they will drill my ovaries at the same time as well as lasering any endo they find. I'm a bit scared but it has to be done before I can attempt any more transfers. I don't know when I will have it done as we want to spend all our time at the hospital at the moment. I will post about this separately I think as I would like to hear from anyone who may have had anything similar done.

Will update soon,

Kerrie

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