My dad is coming for a check-up this coming Sunday for the treatment of his right hand which is causing him real pain on his elbow, he’s been having this pain on left elbow for years , he had major pain and diagnosed about 3-4 years back, he was suggested to go to cancer hospital because they said he had tumor like cells which is growing in his elbow butt he did not go to diagnose in cancer hospital, i dunno why, but now it seems he had been hiding pain all these years because we are not that financially well off , now i think so because during that time he was put under medication for few moths related to his right elbow and he used to say pain is going down and as days passed he started even working like normal so i thought may be doc just scared us and his pain is gone and so days started passing and i even forgot about this disease because he would look like disease free person but now i think he only covered it up all inside him and i think pain was there all the time. i think he did this because we are very low middle class family so he might have thought if he goes to hospital he might endup losing hardly collected money from hard labor, but now it seems problems have worsen, today he called me told me it seems old problem has resumed, he said i did my x-ray here and they told me to go to kathmadu sooner rather than later .So he added, i am coming on sunday to go to hospital, now i am super worried about my dad, way back in past when he was diagnosed and told to go to cancer hospital for further checkup because they saw something unusual on x-ray and claimed that it might be Osteosarcoma(bone cancer) , he didnot go back then, i know he was told by doc that they might need to cut his left arm off in order to prevent cancerous cell spreading all over the body, now i am even more worried by his call not because he called me but because of consequences we might have to face, i dunno whom to tell this ..i dunno what to do , i am the only child of my parents, i can’t even think of him losing his hand ….only hope of mine now is to pray to God and hope for best but i am having hard time dealing with the emotions it has brought inside me .
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My prayers and wishes with you and your dad. I do not know much about osteosarcoma so I won’t write a single thing about it but I had some similar situation and I did the mistake of going through google. Because of fear I didn’t read much just above few line and man till I went to doctor I was suffering and still I haven’t gone through google about it. So, calm down and go to medical professionals and get their expert opinions as they really calm you down even if you have serious problems as they have dealt through a lot of it during their time. As, until you go to them the feeling will continuously run through your mind and rather than thinking about cost or possibility you will be thinking about the worst case scenario like death, cancer or totally amputation so got to med ASAP. Once again prayers from my side.
I am so sorry to hear that. If this is really a case of osteosarcoma and the tumors haven’t metastasized into other parts of the body yet, cutting off the infected arm is most likely the only and effective option. Osteosarcoma does not have a very good prognosis and its much much worse if the tumor has metastasized so you should get him checked up and start treatment ASAP. With timely limb salvaging surgery and if the tumor hasn’t metastasized yet, he may still have a good life. Statistically, the 5 year survival rate of osteosarcoma is 75% so get your dad treated as soon as possible.
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