Thanks for all of your support gang.
An update on Dad for you. He is still in the hospital, but feeling a bit better. He will be taken by ambulance from Castlegar to Kelowna for some radiation treatments this week, which should help with the pain, and I am hoping that will allow him to ease up on the morphine, which in turn should allow him to regain some appetite (he lost 25 pounds in a couple weeks prior to getting hospitalized...)
At this point, he is getting palliative treatment, although not being designated as a palliative care patient. The odds, however, are not looking good for him to last past Easter.
He has asked that my sister in Van and myself do not travel down at this time, but we both are going to go over the next week, and will rotate visits (plus I have another sister living there now.)
Rough time, but all in all, I am very happy that he has lasted this long with the cancers that have infected him for the last 15+ years, and we have had some remarkable times together over that time.
And someone asked how old I am... I just turned 40. Been through the loss of one parent five years ago... not looking forward to that again...
Thanks again all.
Shawn
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