What is the biggest challenge you will face in the next six months?
After brain tumor surgery and immunotherapy, is my father given up on by the docters. He still has several months to live.
On the one hand, not much has changed, because I just visit him every now and then and we call every now and then. He’s not really sick either, he’s just very forgetful and wobbly. He often says “there’s nothing wrong with me”, much to my stepmother’s frustration, because he is of course very ill. It is of course great that he is not bothered by it, especially that he is not in pain. And he doesn’t even realize that he is forgetful, because he has already forgotten that himself, haha. He just asks the same question every 5 minutes. So I can imagine that every now and then she thinks like “you are sick”. Well, if you put the potatoes on the fire without first putting a pan around them, then it really won’t go well.
Future
What will the future look like? His future is still several months away. He just enjoys every day. Preferably with his wife, watching TV together on the couch, he likes that. Many people say that they should start making memories, but he doesn’t feel like doing that at all. Of course he is also a bit more tired because of all those tumors. And his condition has simply declined since he stopped working. They did go to the Efteling again, but he had to use a wheelchair the entire time, because he could no longer manage it. So as long as he has no pain or other complaints, he can just stay at home. What happens next? Well, good question. He doesn’t want to be bedridden or admitted to a nursing home. He has already had this recorded by the doctor.