Waiting

We are sitting and waiting at the hospital. It has been a whirlwind of a few days here. At what we thought was just a Dr. appointment for dad on Thursday our lives were drastically changed. We were informed that what the Dr. at Meridian Park thought was swelling around the tumor, the oncologist at OHSU thinks is actually part of the tumor, and therefore, he thinks it may be malignant. Dad was admitted to OHSU with surgery to follow on Saturday. . . . .which is today. Because of the location of the tumor they feel it should be an easy surgery, all considered. It is scheduled to take about 6 hours. The tumor is on the front part of the brain and is on the outside, they said that the area of the brain that would be affected is the mood, comprenhension part. They feel they should be able to remove the whole tumor without any problems, but we are releaved to know that this will not affect motor skills etc.

We were all up bright and early to be here with dad and to say "I Love You's" before he headed into surgery. Surgery got bumped from 7:30AM to 10:00 which has turned into 11:00AM. The whole family is here in the Surgery waiting area. My grandparents Jim and Betty, Aunt Jo (Dad's sister), and Uncle Denny (Dad's brother) all came up from California to be here so we are visiting while we wait.