Wanna hear something sweet? My Mom's going out today to buy a clock as a Christmas present for the man in the bed beside Dad. I've been raised by such good people!
My mom just phoned and my Dad has been taken down to xray. He met the Cancer specialist and right afterwards began coughing violently. The doctor came back and sent him down for xrays,he seems to think there is a clot on the lung. Part of me says "take him now Lord, if you have to,do it now!" My Dad does not want to be a vegetable lying in bed hooked up to tubes living for his next Morphine injection. He told me so last night, he said "if I go, don't let them bring me back". We'll see how things go. I'm heading down to the hospital shortly.
My mom just called and they told her that the clot is quite treatable with blood thinners. No worry... at least for the moment. Now, I really am going! Merry Christmas to everyone.
God Bless you too, Wii, and I hope you and everyone on this board has a peaceful Christmas. Say hullo to my hero, and tell him to hang tough. BTW, awesome Christmas present for your dad. I wish I could think of things like that.
Me:57 H:52 M:28 Got another lawyer last year and filed. D35,S/D twins28,D22 EA4/04 End? Who knows? "Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you." — Peace Pilgrim
Just got back from wife's place for Christmas Eve dinner. My mom didn't come. She was hoping to spend Xmas Eve with Dad but they still don't know what caused this problems today, it apparently isn't a lung clot, but he's exhausted and seems to want to sleep. She decided she'd rather go home and wrap some presents and get some rest. So, at wife's I was setting the table and all I could see was the place Dad always sat when they visited for special dinners. He'll never sit there again, I'll never have a special meal with him again. When I was in the kitchen carving the turkey I could felt I could hear his voice in the dining room. I held back the tears.Wife asked me to say the Grace, a job my Dad always had at our special meals. We had a nice meal together and watched Forrest Gump on TV later. I left about 10am and came home. I'll go back at 9:00am and we'll open presents and then head down to the hospital. I pray Dad is still with us in the morning.
Thanks Donna. It's these kind of things that just out of nowhere stand up punch you in the mouth. I was at the coffee counter at the hospital today and thought "I should get one for Dad" and then realized he can't drink coffee anymore and he'll never drink it again. Everything that goes into his body is through a tube, except the sponge lollipop that he can dip in water and suck on. I was just looking at the photo I enlarged for Mom and Dad (I ran off two) and he looked so healthy and happy then meanwhile inside of him was a killer slowly sucking the life out of him. The cancer specialist said this cancer has probably been in his body since the last one was removed almost four years ago. How could anyone know? Well, enough of this. Thanks for giving me this outlet to express my pain and emotions. It's a hard journey but I'll get through it, I know I will!
