Hi Pat,
Thanks for the nice reply. Your story is amazing too and does sound similiar. It's funny, from early on my Mother and I kept saying that it seemed like such a fluke because they never actually saw or found the origin site. My Mom kept saying over and over "It's going to leave as fast as it came." We all wanted to believe that, and positive thinking is key, but we were so scared my Dad would be a statistic.
I wouldn't wish this disease on my worst enemy, it is such a catastrophic diagnosis. I don't know how or why this cancer came and left but why can't anyone else hope for that? EVERYONE deserves this kind of news. When my Dad was first diagnosed, we all scoured the internet looking for some "success story" of someone who had beat this at his stage, and we found nothing. We wrote to the LIVE STRONG foundation and asked them to send us Bladder Cancer survivor stories and they sent us back a letter saying that they didn't have any stories that matched my Father's cancer type. My Dad kept going out to the mailbox looking for it, and my Mom never had the heart to tell him about the letter they sent us. It would have been better if they had never wrote to us at all! I KNOW THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT HAVE BEAT THIS, BUT THEY NEED TO GET THEIR STORY OUT THERE!!! People need hope and positivity!
Anyway, my Dad is being treated at Stonybrook and his Oncologist is such a caring, upbeat, brilliant man! His name is Shenhong Wu.
www.stonybrookphysicians.com/doctor/WU_MD_SHENHONG_2820.asp
If I can kind find out specifics of his treatment, I'll definitley post it.
God Bless,
Jamie