We ALMOST lost him!!

First, I want to apologize for the long delay in updates. I had back surgery on March 3rd for a herniated disc and it has not been a good recovery. The first week was unbearable and the most intense pain I have EVER had. Slowly getting better so trying to get life back in order.

Dad has been slowly deteriorating in his physical health but yet his cancer count has continued to be low. After many days of just not feeling good, mom finally convinced dad to go to the doctor. On Tuesday of this week he finally went to the doctor. Mom picked him up to take him and he had no energy to load mom's electric chair so they went and she would just have to wait in the car for him because she can't load it herself. Dad called mom while she was waiting and told her that they were rushing him to emergency. Mom has helpless in the car, didn't know what was going on and had no way to get into emergency to be with dad.

Turns out dad's blood pressure was 60/45. Apparently you go into a coma when your blood pressure is 50/35. I am unclear of all the events as I myself am recovering. Mom ended up going home because she didn't have a way into the emergency. Dad and Greg (my brother) told her that since she was home to stay there because there wasn't anything she could do at the emergency anyway. When mom called they told her that they were admitting him for the night. They were running tests and giving him IV medications to get his blood pressure up. He was admitted to ICU. They told mom that he had an infection that had taken over his body and that had they waited any longer to get him in, he wouldn't have lived.

The infection appears to have come from the permanent catheter that was recently replaced. The ICU replaced it again and dad said that it was the first time since it was surgically put in that it didn't hurt. The doctors and others have told dad that he needs to find a new urologist. Mom and I have been telling him that for a few years now. When the urologist did the surgery to put the permanent catheter in, he told mom that he had put it off because he didn't think dad was going to be around this long. CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT????? We almost lost him not because the cancer that is ravaging his body but because of an infection from replacing the catheter.

Dad came home yesterday, which surprised mom and I. The medication that they have been giving him to raise his blood pressure also raises his blood sugars. When they released him his blood pressure was around 101/60 and his blood sugars were around 195. He has a lot of medication he has to take. I talked to him today and he said he is very weak and cannot eat. He hasn't slept for days. While he was in the hospital, the checked his blood sugars every hour and his vitals every 4 hours. His last day in the hospital he had several visitors and was very "teary eyed" and couldn't believe so many people loved him. Any calls, visits, cards, emails are VERY welcomed. He realizes how close of a call this was and is really appreciative of the people in his life right now.