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StephN · 03-12-2007, 12:25 PM

Thanks for your sweet thoughts and prayers.

Dad finally made it out of intensive care around 5 pm yeasterday - a full NINE days after his surgery. A condition that was not thought to be very important became exacerbated with the surgery and he could not stand without getting dizzy or even passing out! They finally got him on some med that has helped correct that and his is now on his feet a bit and getting stronger every day.
Poor man is just starved for some real solid sleep after this long in the hospital.

His cardiac surgeon wants him to stay here with us for 10 days after getting out of the hospital later this week, so we will be looking at what special equipment, bed etc. will be needed.

Last night Dad told me: :"Well, I never intended to spend the WHOLE month of March with you!" Guess he just thought he would be his normal "Viking" self and walk out of there in a few days...

03-12-2007, 12:25 PM	#39
StephN Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Misty woods of WA State Posts: 4,128	Doing better - all of us ... Thanks for your sweet thoughts and prayers. Dad finally made it out of intensive care around 5 pm yeasterday - a full NINE days after his surgery. A condition that was not thought to be very important became exacerbated with the surgery and he could not stand without getting dizzy or even passing out! They finally got him on some med that has helped correct that and his is now on his feet a bit and getting stronger every day. Poor man is just starved for some real solid sleep after this long in the hospital. His cardiac surgeon wants him to stay here with us for 10 days after getting out of the hospital later this week, so we will be looking at what special equipment, bed etc. will be needed. Last night Dad told me: :"Well, I never intended to spend the WHOLE month of March with you!" Guess he just thought he would be his normal "Viking" self and walk out of there in a few days... __________________ "When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest." H.D. Thoreau Live in the moment. MY STORY SO FAR ~~~~ Found suspicious lump 9/2000 Lumpectomy, then node dissection and port placement Stage IIB, 8 pos nodes of 18, Grade 3, ER & PR - Adriamycin 12 weekly, taxotere 4 rounds 36 rads - very little burning 3 mos after rads liver full of tumors, Stage IV Jan 2002, one spot on sternum Weekly Taxol, Navelbine, Herceptin for 27 rounds to NED! 2003 & 2004 no active disease - 3 weekly Herceptin + Zometa Jan 2005 two mets to brain - Gamma Knife on Jan 18 All clear until treated cerebellum spot showing activity on Jan 2006 brain MRI & brain PET Brain surgery on Feb 9, 2006 - no cancer, 100% radiation necrosis - tumor was still dying Continue as NED while on Herceptin & quarterly Zometa Fall-2006 - off Zometa - watching one small brain spot (scar?) 2007 - spot/scar in brain stable - finished anticoagulation therapy for clot along my port-a-catheter - 3 angioplasties to unblock vena cava 2008 - Brain and body still NED! Port removed and scans in Dec. Dec 2008 - stop Herceptin - Vaccine Trial at U of W begun in Oct. of 2011 STILL NED everywhere in Feb 2014 - on wing & prayer 7/14 - Started twice yearly Zometa for my bones Jan. 2015 checkup still shows NED 2015 Neuropathy in feet - otherwise all OK - still NED. Same news for 2016 and all of 2017. Nov of 2017 - had small skin cancer removed from my face. Will have Zometa end of Jan. 2018.