Thread: Update on Dad
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Old Sep 29, 2006, 12:33 PM
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I just came from the hospital where he is. He came through his surgery fine. They took out about 8 inches of his colon and put it back together again. He is hurting really bad today and I told him not to push it. He is getting up and walking which is good and when I was there they were going to let him take a real shower which he was excited about. They think they got all the cancer and took some lymph nodes just to be sure. We should get the pathology report back on those on Monday. He hopes to come home tomorrow but I told him not to fight the doctor if he doesn't agree that he can come home. They are also going to do another PSA test because his levels were a bit high last time they checked it a couple of days ago. I am hoping that comes back alright because Prostate cancer runs in the family. The doctor put his hand inside dad and felt his liver and said it felt fine and the scope confirmed it. For his incision its just a 7CM cut.

Thanks for all your prayers and good thoughts and putting up with me for the last few weeks.

Jbug
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