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It's Hard to Live without Hope

It was Tuesday evening, January 6th, 2009

My own little girls were on a scheduled visit with their father for a few hours and I was at my parents along with my sister eating tacos, all four of us together, at their "breakfast" table.

My Dad was feeling good, he was already on his second taco, I was filming him telling some of his favorite memories and his eyes were dancing in response to the joy he had for life, for us, for the memories he was sharing, for the time we were presently having...

The "C-word" was still looming, but the hope we had discovered that day had lifted enough for us to be able to breathe again a bit...it felt so good to have even just a glimmer of hope again...we could smile now, even laugh, really enjoy each other's presence.

Ironically hope actually had been found online, frantic googling for a glimmer of it was ultimately successful!   For just hours earlier I had stumbled upon this term we'd all never heard of before called Palliative Care.  

As it turned out, platelets were NOT THE ONLY thing that could be done for my Dad!  There were other options, clearer directions, definite comfort for his pain, even potential treatments available for the man who supposedly had none.  

Palliative Care had given us some hope back that day, the mere knowledge of it alone provided such an immeasurable gift of healing to our pain laden hopeless hearts.

My Dad died five days later, but those all too brief moments of hope, I will always cherish.  

I carry them in my heart today and even now, just over a week since he moved to Heaven, they are somewhat able to soothe the intense pain of losing him.  

If I could live forever in only one moment, it was that one...the moment we found hope again...it's so hard to live without hope...

Please contact your local elected officials today and urge them to increase Palliative Care Awareness via the most effective manner possible.

If You Don't Respect Life, How Are You Able To Save It?

God created life so that it would be cherished, respected and treated with divine care.

Would you feel comfortable going to a Physician who purposely withheld VITAL resources regarding your LIFE?

If you work in the Medical Field and have a patient lying in bed, shivering from cold temperatures, would you put a blanket over them?

If you saw a small child playing alone in the middle of the street, would you move them to the sidewalk before danger approached?

If you happened across a blind man dying of thirst, would you lead him to the nearby drinking fountain?

Do you send your child out to play in the snow with bare feet?

Do you put your Grandparent ailing from Alzheimer's in charge of keeping track of all of your family's weekly activities?

Stupid Questions...Common Sense

Would a Cancer Doctor at the very least, share a folder of Hospice and Palliative Care Resources (of which, btw...are not the same thing) with her Patient during their "Medically, you've run out of options, basically you'll be dead soon" Meeting?

Stupid Question...Common Sense

Right??!!

Astoundingly, it's not...as I am sadly discovering it is not COMMON SENSE for many Cancer Doctors...how could this be??!!!

The very ones whom others trust with their VERY LIVES...not respecting it??!!!

The reality of this is terrifying for us all, because one thing we ALL will have in common is dying...

PLEASE do your part to increase Awareness of Hospice and Palliative Care.

Do you Respect Life?  And if so, how could you not?

My Dad's Cancer Doctor never shared Palliative Care Resources with him at anytime...the only way we found out about it was through a lucky search on the Internet...so regarding this issue, in a sad, albeit strange way...Google was able to Respect my Father, while his Oncologist was not...

I love my Dad (Arend 'Odee' Lenderink)...and I am not okay with this having happened to him nor to anyone...

For PapAmore, Palliative Care Awareness in Honor of Odee Lenderink

In Honor of PapAmore, Arend 'Odee' Lenderink...we wish to dramatically increase the amount of quality information and valuable resources shared with and available to those potentially facing the final stage of cancer.

Although incomprehensible, some physicians do not share with their patients essential knowledge of greatly aiding end of life material.  Rather they seemingly feel it is their "God given right" to singularly destroy all hope while at the same time offering no "road map" for the horrific journey most likely ahead.

When I reflect upon the dark aimlessness my parent's were dealt by my Dad's one and only Oncologist, I am so overwhelmingly sickened.  To deal another human being a "medically no more options" hand without providing them with the necessary tools to face this nightmare is beyond cruel and inhumane.

I fervently pray that none other will have to endure this agonizing path.  I can't get my Dad back now, but I can (hopefully) work towards helping others in his name.

To simply hand a patient a folder Palliative Care Resources is such an easy yet vital act. 

 

There is NO EXCUSE for ANY Physician to omit doing so...

Please a leave a comment below for our Papa, regarding 

Odee Lenderink's Palliative Care Awareness and please do not hesitate to add any suggestions and/or questions as well...

cancer respects no one

It's so painful to see your most idolized, heroic, esteemed figure treated like dirt.

Witnessing such an act threatens to destroy whatever sense of justice your life might still be able to believe is indestructible.

But...cancer respects no one.

Cancer is intimidated by none.

Cancer doesn't care about who you are or what you've done.

No human characteristics repel cancer's ugly eagerness to destroy.

So thankful that there is no cancer in Heaven.  

Try as it might, that's only one forever place that cancer can ever be...  

Cancer truly is hell.