Okay, gang, cross your fingers *really* hard.

[capri0mni]

Finally called the hospital, and got transferred through to Dad.

The Good News:

• They won't have to operate on his knee, but just put it in a massive splint


• His heart rate has come down to normal


• He's just as cheerful as ever

The Bad News:

• In the course of a routine chest X-ray, they found a "spot" on his lung.

He no longer smokes, but until he quit, some 25 years ago, he was a heavy smoker. His sister, Jean, died of lung cancer a few years ago. And he's had a shallow dry cough, in the mornings, for a while now, that he'd just assumed was post-nasal drip, or something. But maybe not.

The nurse was coming in to take him for the biopsy during the phone call. So I hung up and came to make this post. On the positive side, from the sound of things, it sounds like a small spot, so they may have caught it early enough to do something about it, and besides, we won't know if it really is cancer until the biopsy comes back anyway. Of course, this being the weekend, it will be several days until the results come back.

So, he'll likely spend the weekend in the hospital. At least, I know which buttons to push when I want to talk to him, now....

Comments

[lizziebelle.livejournal.com]

Fingers & toes crossed! Glad you got to speak with him. Hugs!

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :::Clings:::

I think I'm going to need a lot of sources of belly-laughs over the next few days and weeks, if I want to keep my sanity.

[scarfman]

Best wishes for a speedy and favorable diagnosis.

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Hear, hear!

And thank you...

[uncacreamy.livejournal.com]

God. Good wishes for you both.

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Thank you. It sure has been one hell of a week, hasn't it?

Glad I got to "meet" you, in the process, though. :-)

[indefatigable42.livejournal.com]

*crosses fingers*

*hugs*

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Thank thee. *hugs back*

One step at a time -- one step at a time.

[gordon-r-d.livejournal.com]

Oh no. I really hope it's just something small and not bad and...damn. Don't know what to say really ut keeping both yo and him in my hopes and thoughts right now.

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Oh no. I really hope it's just something small and not bad and...damn.

You took the words right out of my brain. Just trying to think positive is taking all my concentration, right now...

I think I may need to start up a pro-fun hoedown again, soon. I need something creative and with community to deal with the stress, I think. ...

[kalibex.livejournal.com]

Good Luck to all involved....

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Thanks! And... Kittenshoe! BTW, I've been meaning to ask: do you know that kitty, or is that a bit of anonymous 'Nets cuteness?

[snowgrouse.livejournal.com]

Eep:/. Good luck.

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :::Clings:::

[judiang.livejournal.com]

Yikes! I'll keep all fingers and toes crossed.

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

[pedanther]

There's a story about a young girl who's taken to hospital, and when they do an X-ray a mysterious shadow shows up on each of her lungs. The doctor is still a bit wet behind the ears, and he doesn't know what to make of these shadows, so he calls for the specialist. The specialist arrives, grumbling about his own work being interrupted. He looks at the X-ray, looks at the patient, looks at the X-ray again. Says, "Do the X-ray again, and this time make sure her pig-tails are out of the way..."


(I rather doubt your Dad's spot can be explained this way, but here's hoping it's something equally innocuous!)

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

... the little girl had lead braids ... ??? ;-)

[rob-t-firefly.livejournal.com]

I've crosses everything I've got, and some things I'm pretty sure belong to other people.