第二次報告

二零零七年。八月二十四日。星期五。

Friday, August 24, 2007


帶著忐忑不安的心情，今天一早陪爸爸回診。
經過四次化療，全家人都很希望看到爸爸的病情獲得改善。
終於燈號亮出爸爸的預約號碼。

With fears that cancer cells are not easy to treat, this morning, I accompanied Papa to hospital for the result of the latest physical exam after the fourth chemotherapy. Waiting for our turn to see the doctor...

寬敞的診間，因為我們進入突然變得有點兒擁擠。　
爸爸坐在面對醫師的椅子上，媽媽姊姊跟我就面對醫師，站在爸爸身後。
看著爸爸的背影，因為化療的副作用顯得稀疏的頭髮，很心疼。
昨晚回到家，看到爸爸稍顯蒼白的臉色，心裡只有不安。

The spacious consulting room became a little bit crowded for our coming~ Papa took the seat facing the doctor, Mama, elder sister and me stood behind Papa. Looking at Papa's back, his hair went bald because of the side effect of chemotherapy. Last night I felt very agitated when I saw ashen-faced Papa at home.

林醫師打開爸爸的電腦斷層結果，螢幕捲～啊～捲～　
大家原本捲著的眉頭，跟著電腦斷層的結果，一點點地打開！
真是謝謝老天爺！腫瘤團塊因為化療的緣故持續縮小中！
左肺上方的壞團塊已經縮小到三公分左右，原本對化療不太有反應、位於肺中隔的那個腫瘤，似乎也縮小了！

Dr. Lin opened Papa's file and the films of CT scan were shown on the screen. Followed with the scrolling screen, the worry eyebrows of everybody turned to be happy shape!!
Thank GOD for HIS mercy!
Size of the tumor masses kept on going smaller under chemotherapy~ The malignant tumor located at the left upper lung has been shrunk to less than 3 cm in diameter. The other one at the center of Papa's lung, which did not respond well to the chemotherapy, also showed to be inhibited by C/T.

離開醫院回家的路上大家的心情都好極了！
雖然爸爸的臉色依舊蒼白，笑容卻如胭脂一般，悄悄地點亮了爸爸的臉龐。
媽媽鎮日深鎖的眉頭，在這一刻，開心得只剩瞇瞇眼了～

On the way leaving hospital, we were cheering for the improvement! Mama's curly eyebrows now disappeared. Papa's face though was ashen still, yet the cheering smile decorated and lighted up Papa's face at this moment.

我，當然是忙著給妹妹、弟弟打電話， 把這個好消息，傳達給未能同來、卻同步掛念著爸爸病情變化的～爸爸的孩子們。這真是令全家人振奮的好消息！

I surely was very busy calling younger sister and brother and telling the good news. It was indeed a great encouragement for everybody of our family!!