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I just wanted to send my thoughts and prayers to you and your Dad, and the rest of your family. Your attitude and approach to life are amazing. Prayers and best wishes for your Dad’s continued improvement, and to you and your kind and loving family,
I’ll join Patty and Bandon it’s a fantastic way to help your father through that tough time. I remember when I was little and my grand father was in hospital with leuchemia the only thing that managed to get him out of bed for a little while was to go to the window to see my brother and I playing in the garden in front of the hospital.
Take good care of yourself and your familly and thank you for taking the time to update us as well.
To All,
Sorry I have not posted for a couple of days, the last few days have been very hard for me. Yesterday, July 4th was my birthday, it was very hard to celebrate this with my dad in the hospital. He was just starting to wake up the last few days and I know he was aware of our presence. He would let us know either yes or no by nooding his head to our simple questions. Today was really hard because he really wanted to talk to us, but couldn’t since he had a feeding tube down his throat. Today they operated on him to try and hook up his esphagaus to his intestines. The surgery went for 6 hours and he came through it ok. The doctor says the next few days are very critical. The fix that the doctor did has to mend, doctor thinks it has a 50-50 chance of mending and actually making it through ok. The next 5 to 10 days will be very critical in his recovery. Folks, I have to be very honest here, if he does make it ok in the next 5 to 10 days it will be a miracle of God. I will continue to hope and pray for that miracle, but if he should pass that is ok too!! He is 78 years old and has lived a full life, I just don’t want to see him suffer any more. I am ok with that fact that it may be his time, I know if this happens he will be in a better place. Folks I am really sorry I have not been around here much, but my family and my dad are very important to me right now. Please continue to pray for my dad and for my family. I will try to post, but may not do to much. I am very emotinonally tired and very drained. Time for me to get some much needed sleep. Good night folks.
Reflections.
The past few days I have been doing a lot of reflecting on my life and the impact that my dad has had upon my life. One of the things that stands out to me, is that my dad always made time to spend with me and my sister. No matter how busy he was, he tried to spend time with both of us. I look upon my life with my daughter and I understand why I try to do the same. I can remember many a tutoring session in math where he would try to help me and spend time with me. Also I remember many a session in which we spent time at his work bench. I also remember from the work bench sessions the importance my dad placed on reading the directions to help him fix whatever hardware issue he was working on. I do the same thing in my life now in both repairing computers at work and at fixing something at home. For me these times of reflections have been very helpful to me to appreciate the way in which my dad has left impressions on my life. Reflecting back has helped to bring me peace in this situation now. Since two days have now passed since his second surgery, he is still doing the best he can. I asked my Mom today how often my Dad worked out prior to this happening. He would workout anywhere from 3 to 5 days a week at the health club. He would swim, weight lift and do some aerobic excercise. I would like to believe that this is why his body is able to do so well during a situation like this one. Since my dad has been heavily sedated I decided for the past two days to spend time at home with my family. This has really helped me out alot, since this occured about one week ago, I have spent a lot of time at the hospital. My mom and sister agreed that I did need some time away from the hospital to rest and spend time with my family too. Well tommorrow I am going in to see him and I am really looking forward to it. And next week I will return to work and to using the workout center at work. I look forward to that as well. So, I am starting to move in other areas of my life as well. Will keep you all posted on this one. thanks for letting me vent a little.
Scooby thanks for sharing a bit of insight into your relationship with your Dad, it sounds like you to have a great relationship,don’t worry about venting it’s ok, thats what were here for, I am sending good thoughts your way and hoping thing will go better for your Dad.
You’ve got to be exhausted, good thing you took time to be at home. Is he more out of the woods the further after surgery? I’m still praying for him, you, and your family. Thanks for the update.
