Monday, January 26, 2009

Cancer Free

I just returned from a 9 day trip back home to Minnesota! Dad had his surgery on Friday, January 16th. The surgery was only supposed to take 4 hours, but ended up taking 6.5 hours!! They had some complications during the surgery since dad's prostate was larger than they thought so it took some extra work to get it out. The first few days for him were a little rough as he was pretty uncomfortable. He was released from the hospital the following Monday. So over a week has passed since his surgery and he is definitely on the road to recovery. He went in this morning for his 1 week check up and found out he is CANCER FREE! He has to have his catheter and drain tube (attached to an incision) for one more week and he is not happy about it. He still has quite a bit of drainage from surgery, so we hope that he can get it out next Tuesday. Thank you all for your prayers, calls, emails, and texts! We appreciate it very much!

1 comment:

grier said...

I am so happy to hear that he's doing a little better, Heather... hope things continue to improve! Praying for you! ♥brittany