For those of you who didn't know, Dad was diagnosed with lung cancer over Christmas. Not the best present to receive, but we were blessed to catch it as early as we did. Someone was watching over him when he and mom travelled to Charleston to spend Xmas with Jeff and Lora and had the tests run down there. A tumor was found in his upper left lung, and by noon yesterday, he was done with surgery to remove that lobe of his lung, and now we are waiting in the ICU. He came through surgery with little complications (other than the now assumed fact that anyone with Santi blood can't tolerate anesthesia with getting nauseous) We did find out that the tumor was a little larger in reality than showed on the x-rays - so most likely a Stage 2 cancer, which will probably result in some chemo/radiation therapy. He has been awake and is in some pain, but with medications that is under control. Later today he'll move to a regular room and continue to get stronger. This was all frosted with about 3 inches of snow covering an inch of ice from yesterday. So I spent the night here (slightly unprepared) and Jeff got to relive his snow shoveling experience since moving to the blood thinning climate of South Carolina. I haven't heard that much complaining in a long time!
We thank everyone who has offered prayers and thoughts as we move to the next step of this experience.
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