Update on Dad

Thanks for all of the prayers and concerns! The surgery went well. PHEW! The surgeon went into his hip and saw that there was quite a bit of infected fluid all throughout it. He was able to clean and "power wash" the hip out. The problem he did find that because the cancer has eaten away so much of the bone there are lots of little holes for the infectious bug to hide. So the chances of him having to have his hip "power washed" again is likely. They will be giving him some hard core antibiotics but with him being on chemo that is likely to fight the antibiotic. So frequent blood tests will have to be done to determine if the levels of infection rise. Does any of this make sense???? Any how he is recovering and will probably be released from the hospital on Monday if all goes well. Hopefully this will have relieved much of his pain that he has had in that area. Only time will tell. I am so grateful that my sister Tara was able to fly up here from AZ to help with driving my mom back and forth to Huntsman Medical, which is about 1 hour away. My mom will not drive in the dark, on the freeway or if it is raining or snowing, so Tara being here will help a lot! And my heck I am so amazed at the friends who rallied around me yesterday. The phone calls, visits, dinner for my hubby and kids, picking the kids up from school, the megga treat bag (ladmo bag) for the hospital, babysitting...lots of babysitting and just all around concern for my needs was overwhelming. I can't hold back the tears just thinking about the love that was shown for me these last couple of days and I wasn't the one in surgery!!!! I have the greatest friends and belong to such an amazing ward.
THANK YOU!!!