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First, sorry as seems I missed your post, Melinda. I’m very happy to hear from another CC survivor and thanks for the good thoughts and prayers you’re sending! I’m sending mine back to you and all the people on this site.

Dear friends ( I feel like calling you all like this already) now an update on my dad’s state – we’ve called the IC unit and the doctor told us he can breath on his own already and that he is fine as much as a person after such an operation can be.

Thanks everyone for wonderful words of support, I feel very important here and you are becoming very important to me.

Hi again!

My dad is after his operation already – sounds like Patric’s case – the doctors removed all the tumor, about 50 or 60 percent of his liver, gallbladder, nearby lymph nodes which they believe are ok but only histological analysis will give us clearer results. To get a clear margin, a big part of my dad’s liver had to be removed.

The doctors said his state after the operation is usual. He is in intensive care unit and will be kept there for two days and then they will see if there is a need to keep him longer there.

Also, they said they didn’t see cancer spreading and I wish to hope my dad will be a survivor. Now the most important thing is post operation period, we’ll pray for it to be smooth.

Dear everyone,

Today is a very tough day for our family as my father’s operation’s begun. I’ll inform you how it all worked after and I do hope everything will be as good as possible in this difficult situation.

Thanks for sharing your stories, it sure helps a lot. Yesterday I spent much time with dad and kept telling him other people’s experiences. Seems it made him feel less worried.

I wish you all or your loved ones to get better too.

Your support means a lot to me and my family. I’d also like to be supportive to those who need to be encouraged, I’ll keep sharing the story of my dad which I hope will be successful. I’ve realised there’s no need to give up in the tough situations, even if prognosis, statistics tell you horrible things. Each one fights, each one needs to beleive for the best.

I am so mad at the people here who have already burried my dad. Some colleagues or relatives call me and their know it all tones suggest get ready for funeral. I just want to scream I refuse to be as pesimistic as they are but I don’t argue, I need strength to help my dad to fight and to win.

I think things are different in let us say USA – we don’t have support groups like this and I can say I’m blessed I’ve found you and that I know English well enough to understand your stories and to post mine. I needed this support a lot, am feeling not alone with huge problems. I see how people fight and survive and I know we all have our own roads and challenges to face.

Dear Pat,

It is so great to see such a quick response to my message here, especially by a cc survivor of nine years. Your story is very inspiring and gives us all hope.

First, I wish you and all the members and their relatives here to stay strong and be able to keep fighting.

I’ve read your tumor was 1,5 cm, my dad’s is 2,1. We managed to get help from leading oncologists in Lithuania and I hope they’ll be able to help us in this situation.

Pat, if you don’t mind, could you please write something about post-operation period. I’ll keep informing you about my dad’s condition. Monday will be hard for us but we hope for the best. Operation isn’t easy as we were told. My daddy knows not a single word in English but he said when he comes back home, he’ll sit by a pc with me and we’ll share things here together. He calls me ‘half-professor in medicine ‘ lol as I’ve read everything I could about this illness and inform him about the cases of success daily.

I’ve always been ‘daddy’s girl’ but this diagnosis brought us even closer together.

We’ll know the exact diagnosis later, after his operation but doctors say echoscopy, scans are informative enough for them to suspect cholangiocarcinoma.

I hope to hear from Pat and others again!