Dad Update

[ellyssian]

Dad looks pretty bad - pretty frail. He's on a lot of painkillers (and he's not used to that kind of thing at all,) so he's pretty loopy. His communication is so-so: not sure when he's able to understand or not. Apparently, the pancreas is infected, and their might be a possibility of another blockage. He's alternating the painkillers with antibiotics, and they're stressing more importance on the latter, so he has some pain.

At one point, he wasn't sure who I was - he had mom, named me Dan, and then called Dan Daniel.

Oy.

Had a detour on the way home - a whole section around the corner was blocked off by police/fire. Turns out a fire truck was responding to a call on a gas leak, and their gas tank fell off and was dragging - they couldn't hear it because of the siren.

Comments

[jenjiyana.livejournal.com]

:/ I remember when my mom was going through chemo. It didnt even look like here. She was greyish in color and just seemed...old (she was only 56). Everything that could go wrong went wrong - blod clottting, veins collapsing so they had to insert some type of port for the chemo which caused further complications. It's never easy seeing someone go through chemo or radiation. I dont even know what to say except that im praying, in my own non-denominational way, for your family.

[opakele.livejournal.com]

Hang in there. I know this is hard.