It's Day 13 of his hospital stay, but it looks like on Monday he will be able to return to our home county to spend two weeks or so in a rehab center there.
Since being diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma about 10 days ago, we can now report:
1. No cancer in the bones.
2. Cancer is Stage 1E. In other words not only is Stage 1 good, but his cancer also appears to be confined to only the area of his tumor. The doctors are 90% sure of the diagnosis. We'll take it.
3. Dad's chemotherapy has been free of side-effects such as nausea so far.
4. Yesterday, enough strength and motion returned to his left leg to take a good walk around the nurses' station with his walker while his physical therapist held onto him loosely. The nurses were cheering him on with one hospital worker getting blessed and telling Dad, "Lift up your eyes to the hills, your strength comes from The Lord." It was holy ground!
My Dad, age 20... Yesteryear
My Dad now age 73... Yesterday
Deo Volente -- Whatever God Wants!
Grateful
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