Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Dad

Update on dad; sounds like he will be getting out of the hospital today (Tuesday). he is going home with the chest tube. (?) His biopsy came back and unfortunately it is cancer. It's call a sarcoma, apparently its rare to be in the lung only 7% of the cancer patient have this. The good news is that it is contained with in the lung and doesn't appear to be spreading.
Mom is thrilled to have him coming home. She has missed him terribly. We will have to monitor him closely to make sure the chest tube is doing it's job. He will return in a week for more x-rays and with any luck the chest tube can be removed with in a month ( according to the doctors )
All though the news of cancer is scary for us all, we will take every day that we have to make it the best. Because of his lung condition surgery is not an option and we will have to look at radiation or chemo as a possibility. But for now we'll take one day at a time.
our family would like to thank all of you for your support and well wishes.

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