*English to follow
Premièrement je tiens à m'excuser aux francophones si les courriels sont en anglais mais je n'ai que peu de temps pour écrire et comme plusieurs anglophones ne comprennent pas un mot de français, j'ai choisi d'écrire en anglais. Au besoin, vous pouvez utiliser Google Translate pour vous aider.
Dear all,
First of all, I apologize to all of those who gets this email for the first time. I had made a list of all the friends Nathalie and I have in common and who's email I had to send the first email informing you that Nathalie's breast cancer had come back and to ask for your help in prayers and action, but apparently it didn't reach all of you. I apologize. I will attach the first email at the bottom so that you are aware of what is going on. I appreciate the response I received from those that got the email and want to thank all of those that have contributed on her behalf.
I'm afraid though that I am not a bearer of good news today. When she got operated in December, I failed to mention to you all that she had suffered a hip injury last August that never seemed to go away, but which was growing more painfully every passing day.
During the week of January 3rd, the pain was so severe that she was considering going to the hospital after the sports doctor refused to give her an injection of cortisone when she described her pain on Thursday. That day when I talked to her she told me that she had been throwing up for a day and was not able to hold any food down. She had called the hospital where she was operated to ask whether it would be possible for her to wait on a stretcher in the ER because she was not able to sit for more than 15 minutes on a chair. The answer was a categoric "NO". She was devastated.
She was inspired to called the Jarvis, a couple of friends of ours who are both doctors at the Jewish Hospital and when Kathy offered to take her to the ER of the Jewish, she jumped at the occasion.
To make a long story short, when she arrived at the ER, her pressure was 170/113 which is EXTREMELY high, which meant one of two possibilities, she was either in heart failure or in excruciating pain. In her case, it was the latter. The doctors took her history and ordered more tests, to discover that the pain was coming from an abnormal high dosage of calcium in her blood, indicating that the cancer had now spread to her bones. The high level of calcium was the reason she had been throwing up and the cancer the reason what seemed like a hip injury was not healing at all.
She has now been admitted to the hospital and I was there when they moved her to her room. I am on my way back to the hospital today.
For those of you wishing to send something, you can do so through me again or directly to her. Email me at this blog for the detailed address.
I will bring her parents to the hospital everyday that I can, so that all letters and packages will be brought to her on a daily basis, but those in town and that know her parents and would be able to bring them to see her, please get in touch with me. I will bring her father to her cardiologist appointment on Monday because he is really afraid of getting lost, so he needs to be reassured. I will replace Nathalie in the interim but would ask for your prayers in the meantime.
No one should have to go through so much pain and suffering, and Nathalie is really not one to complain about anything unless she is in a lot of pain, so please keep her in your thoughts and prayers.
If you want to call her, you can reach her at (514) 340-8222 (2891). If no one picks up the phone, it's just that she is most probably sleeping or have visitors, so you should try again later.
She just called me to give me an update about her condition. She was able to hold down the food this morning, at least for now, which is a huge improvement. I'm on my way to pick up her parents so that they can go and visit with her today.
May you have a blessed day.
Premièrement je tiens à m'excuser aux francophones si les courriels sont en anglais mais je n'ai que peu de temps pour écrire et comme plusieurs anglophones ne comprennent pas un mot de français, j'ai choisi d'écrire en anglais. Au besoin, vous pouvez utiliser Google Translate pour vous aider.
Dear all,
First of all, I apologize to all of those who gets this email for the first time. I had made a list of all the friends Nathalie and I have in common and who's email I had to send the first email informing you that Nathalie's breast cancer had come back and to ask for your help in prayers and action, but apparently it didn't reach all of you. I apologize. I will attach the first email at the bottom so that you are aware of what is going on. I appreciate the response I received from those that got the email and want to thank all of those that have contributed on her behalf.
I'm afraid though that I am not a bearer of good news today. When she got operated in December, I failed to mention to you all that she had suffered a hip injury last August that never seemed to go away, but which was growing more painfully every passing day.
During the week of January 3rd, the pain was so severe that she was considering going to the hospital after the sports doctor refused to give her an injection of cortisone when she described her pain on Thursday. That day when I talked to her she told me that she had been throwing up for a day and was not able to hold any food down. She had called the hospital where she was operated to ask whether it would be possible for her to wait on a stretcher in the ER because she was not able to sit for more than 15 minutes on a chair. The answer was a categoric "NO". She was devastated.
She was inspired to called the Jarvis, a couple of friends of ours who are both doctors at the Jewish Hospital and when Kathy offered to take her to the ER of the Jewish, she jumped at the occasion.
To make a long story short, when she arrived at the ER, her pressure was 170/113 which is EXTREMELY high, which meant one of two possibilities, she was either in heart failure or in excruciating pain. In her case, it was the latter. The doctors took her history and ordered more tests, to discover that the pain was coming from an abnormal high dosage of calcium in her blood, indicating that the cancer had now spread to her bones. The high level of calcium was the reason she had been throwing up and the cancer the reason what seemed like a hip injury was not healing at all.
She has now been admitted to the hospital and I was there when they moved her to her room. I am on my way back to the hospital today.
For those of you wishing to send something, you can do so through me again or directly to her. Email me at this blog for the detailed address.
I will bring her parents to the hospital everyday that I can, so that all letters and packages will be brought to her on a daily basis, but those in town and that know her parents and would be able to bring them to see her, please get in touch with me. I will bring her father to her cardiologist appointment on Monday because he is really afraid of getting lost, so he needs to be reassured. I will replace Nathalie in the interim but would ask for your prayers in the meantime.
No one should have to go through so much pain and suffering, and Nathalie is really not one to complain about anything unless she is in a lot of pain, so please keep her in your thoughts and prayers.
If you want to call her, you can reach her at (514) 340-8222 (2891). If no one picks up the phone, it's just that she is most probably sleeping or have visitors, so you should try again later.
She just called me to give me an update about her condition. She was able to hold down the food this morning, at least for now, which is a huge improvement. I'm on my way to pick up her parents so that they can go and visit with her today.
May you have a blessed day.
P.S. To write an email to Nathalie while she is in the hospital, please use withfaithineveryfootstep@gmail.com. I will print the letters and bring it to her or answer any inquiries about Nathalie. I strongly encourage you to send her a card at home. If you do not have her home address, please email me at this same address.
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