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Celebrating Life after Pancreatic Cancer!

Pancreatic Cancer | Last Active: Nov 20, 2022 | Replies (17)

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@sofiadide20

Hi everyone, I been reading some of your stories and you have no idea how much they been helping me in helping my dad. My dad was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer December 2021. They said it was stage 1B and that it didn’t spread anywhere else. He started chemotherapy right away. We thought that chemo was gonna be devastating but it wasn’t that bad for him. He is 65 with no other mayor health problems other than a history of blood clots so he is been on blood thinners for over 15 years. Chemo actually took care of the back pain and all the other issues he had prior to cancer diagnosis. He did 8 round of chemo and some radiotherapy prior to Wipple. He was better than ever before the procedure. He got his surgery august 15, he is now home recovering. The tumor was negative of cancer, everything they took was cancer free. However my dad is having a hard time recovering. Everything is going good according to the doctor but I can see that my dad is getting frustrated. He feels weak, and he has a sense that he will never get his life back. He goes to the bathroom a lot that’s the main issue he is having. He spend over 2 weeks at the hospital and it’s been almost one month since surgery. How can I help him? I would like to share with him some of the stories to see if that will give him hope. Will he feel better eventually? Thank you so much in advance

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Hello @sofiadide20 and welcome to Mayo Clinic Connect. I wanted to bring your post on your dad's post-treatment journey into a discussion that I noticed you had previously joined and commented.

I think you can both celebrate life after pancreatic cancer and also connect with others who are on the other side of their journey, like your dad is, as many others may be experiencing or may have experienced similar trailing symptoms and might be able to provide you with support for your dad.

Would your dad have interest in joining Connect himself to connect with others like him?

I am considering the whipple procedure but this makes me wonder.I have read there is a 2 month recovery and have found that they are now doing it by laproscopy which improves the recovery.Problem is you have to find someone that does it that way.Mayo clinic does but that is too far for me.Tell your Dad to hang in there.He made it this far and he is now at the end of treatment,praise God.