Ziggys Cancer Journey
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Hi I’m salima I’m 14 years old, this is my dads journey!
Where it all started was when my dad started to have heal pain, stomach pains and couldn’t eat or drink like normal.
He went to the drs and dr prescribed some medicine.
My dad started the medicine on Monday 23/09/19 and Tuesday the 24/09/19 fainted at home.
We were very scared so we called the paramedics.
When the paramedics arrived they put my dad on the stretcher to take him to hospital, then my dad needed to use the bathroom urgently, the paramedics helped him back inside the house, he then became very pale.
Paramedics then laid my dad down on the ground lifted his legs up as his blood pressure was very low.
My siblings and I were very worried for our dad.
They gave him fluids and oxygen enough to get him up to use the bathroom.
Once my dad used the bathroom the paramedics knew something was very wrong.
My dad had internal bleeding and was rushed to Bankstown hospital.
Bankstown hospital did some tests and gave my dad lots of blood transfusions because he was loosing a lot of blood.
They did scans, and 2 scopes and still couldn’t stop the bleeding.
My my eldest sister came and picked me and my little sisters up to go see our dad, when we arrived to the hospital our dad was in ICU he was intubated and sedated, and the drs were organising to move him to St George hospital for further tests. So mum didn’t let us see him because of the state he was in, she knew we wouldn’t be able to cope,
this was a very traumatic for all of us as we didn’t know what was going on and we didn’t have any answers.
At St George hospital my dad had lots of tests and scans, while he was in ICU he was sedated for 3 days.
We didn’t understand what was going on, just that dad was very sick and mum was with him all the time.
Drs said my dad has a large ulcer on his stomach and lots of little ulcers around his organs, we just wanted dad home because at this stage our dad was in hospital for 8 days, we missed seeing him, playing , laughing and cracking jokes with dad because he’s very funny and easy going.
The Surgeon operated on my dad on Monday 30/9/19, to stop the bleeding
Tuesday 1/10/19 mum and dad received the heartbreaking, devastating news about my dad.
Our fun, loving, caring dad was diagnosed with stage 4 gastric cancer and peritoneal Mets.
Shocked, scared, annoyed and frustrated we felt our world crushing down on us.
This is incredibly difficult for all of us to try to understand.
I am 1 of 6 children in our family. This has been devastating, and a really hard and challenging tough time for us.
Dad has started chemo and Drs want to do surgery in December a week before Christmas to try and remove the cancer,
Dad has more chemo after the surgery.
Chemo has been very harsh and scary at times.
Normally dad is a hard worker, he used to get up early everyday to work. No matter how he is feeling.
My dad is our hero, it’s so hard to see our dad going through this, we want him to get better.
we don’t know what will happen we are very scared .
Due to dads condition he can’t work which has added stress on our family.
We don’t know how long he’ll be off work for.
We need help for living expenses, medical expenses as you can understand this is very traumatic time for all of us.
please donate what you can no amount is too small, it all counts, pray for us, and if you can’t donate please make sure you share this with all your family and friends
May God bless you and your love ones, may you never ever go through something like this, it’s devastating.
Thank you
salima
Where it all started was when my dad started to have heal pain, stomach pains and couldn’t eat or drink like normal.
He went to the drs and dr prescribed some medicine.
My dad started the medicine on Monday 23/09/19 and Tuesday the 24/09/19 fainted at home.
We were very scared so we called the paramedics.
When the paramedics arrived they put my dad on the stretcher to take him to hospital, then my dad needed to use the bathroom urgently, the paramedics helped him back inside the house, he then became very pale.
Paramedics then laid my dad down on the ground lifted his legs up as his blood pressure was very low.
My siblings and I were very worried for our dad.
They gave him fluids and oxygen enough to get him up to use the bathroom.
Once my dad used the bathroom the paramedics knew something was very wrong.
My dad had internal bleeding and was rushed to Bankstown hospital.
Bankstown hospital did some tests and gave my dad lots of blood transfusions because he was loosing a lot of blood.
They did scans, and 2 scopes and still couldn’t stop the bleeding.
My my eldest sister came and picked me and my little sisters up to go see our dad, when we arrived to the hospital our dad was in ICU he was intubated and sedated, and the drs were organising to move him to St George hospital for further tests. So mum didn’t let us see him because of the state he was in, she knew we wouldn’t be able to cope,
this was a very traumatic for all of us as we didn’t know what was going on and we didn’t have any answers.
At St George hospital my dad had lots of tests and scans, while he was in ICU he was sedated for 3 days.
We didn’t understand what was going on, just that dad was very sick and mum was with him all the time.
Drs said my dad has a large ulcer on his stomach and lots of little ulcers around his organs, we just wanted dad home because at this stage our dad was in hospital for 8 days, we missed seeing him, playing , laughing and cracking jokes with dad because he’s very funny and easy going.
The Surgeon operated on my dad on Monday 30/9/19, to stop the bleeding
Tuesday 1/10/19 mum and dad received the heartbreaking, devastating news about my dad.
Our fun, loving, caring dad was diagnosed with stage 4 gastric cancer and peritoneal Mets.
Shocked, scared, annoyed and frustrated we felt our world crushing down on us.
This is incredibly difficult for all of us to try to understand.
I am 1 of 6 children in our family. This has been devastating, and a really hard and challenging tough time for us.
Dad has started chemo and Drs want to do surgery in December a week before Christmas to try and remove the cancer,
Dad has more chemo after the surgery.
Chemo has been very harsh and scary at times.
Normally dad is a hard worker, he used to get up early everyday to work. No matter how he is feeling.
My dad is our hero, it’s so hard to see our dad going through this, we want him to get better.
we don’t know what will happen we are very scared .
Due to dads condition he can’t work which has added stress on our family.
We don’t know how long he’ll be off work for.
We need help for living expenses, medical expenses as you can understand this is very traumatic time for all of us.
please donate what you can no amount is too small, it all counts, pray for us, and if you can’t donate please make sure you share this with all your family and friends
May God bless you and your love ones, may you never ever go through something like this, it’s devastating.
Thank you
salima
Organizer
Em Mohamed
Organizer
Greenacre NSW
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