Home update

The first few days home were a little rough, but things seem to be on the upswing today. He walked three times today, and is feeling more like himself, his blood pressure has been really good...They will do a blood test to check on things next week. Please pray that he continues to be in good spirits...this has been a big summer of lots of things to "digest" for the mind and spirit, I believe...

2nd day going well

Things are going well this a.m. It is noon already, and they have taken the morphine pump out now and he is taking meds. now by mouth. He is a little nausus(hmmm...this is a word I can't spell apparently), but it is manageable. Praise God for all the good things.

Day of 2nd surgery

Surgery was scheduled for 7:00 a.m., however, it was delayed until 8:30 a.m. He got out of surgery at 12 noon, and now it is 2:55 p.m. and he is still in recovery. Hopefully he will get a room soon. His dr. spoke with us after the surgery, noting that the tumor on this kidney was bigger than they thought it was and they found a 2nd tumor which they took out is well. The plan is that he will most likely not need dialysis at this point, but they'll know more later. The tumor they didn't see on the CAT scan concerns them, and he will probably have to have at least 2-3 CAT scans a year to hopefully try to make sure that there aren't any more. He also might have another chance to be part of another clinical trial for something for high-risk cancer patients. Good news for now that they got the 2 things they saw...they should know tomorrow if the other kidney is working, too. That's about all we know for now.