My father died Sunday night

[ladyVet]

127. So sorry, Glinda.

My father, 84, has something similar called myelofibrosis, diagnosed last year. It's a bone marrow disease which the doctor says makes the bone marrow thick and rough like tree bark. His spleen has taken over making new blood, which is very hard on him. He's had transfusions, takes a cancer drug at $1000 a pop, twice a day. He's too old to get a bone marrow transplant.

But he still works. He's slowed down, and some days he comes home early, but he would die if he had to sit at home. And make my mother crazy (she had breast cancer two years ago, nearly dying from complications from the surgery).

It's hard knowing Daddy is going to die before his time from this. We expected him to live into his 90s, like most of his family, but the expectancy from this is five years.

Daddy was too young for WWII, but served in Korea, and spent many years in the National Guard.