Dad in the Hospital

    Around midnight on Sunday morning Dad called Darwin saying that he had several bad coughing spells and felt like he needed to go to the ER.

  He insisted that he would be fine driving himself. So he did and he was admitted with Pneumonia.

  We had sickness at our house and so only three of us were going to church that morning. Larita called when we were on our way that morning and wondered how he was doing. I had thought I would stop in sometime after church but she advised me to go to the hospital first. I was glad I did.

   Dad is very independent and never asks for anything really. I look at him as quite capable even at his age. But he was happy to see us and I became more aware that he needs us to be there for him.

   The Dr. came in while we were there and so he was going over dad's medical history. Dad was telling him about his Colon cancer he had 20 years ago. How he'd had radiation first to try to shrink his tumor before surgery. Then after surgery they said they got it all along with his bladder, prostate and some of his colon.

After surgery they advised him to do Chemotherapy and dad asked them why he should if they got all the cancer and they replied that there was always a possibility that it could come back.

Dad said he asked then if they could guarantee that the Chemo would cure him completely and they said no,they couldn't do that, so then he asked them what would happen if he didn't do the Chemotherapy and to that they responded, "You will die."

  Dad went on with his story saying that he decided if they couldn't stand behind the Chemotherapy he would opt not to take it.

The doctor listening to dad's story surprised me with his response,
     " The chemotherapy probably would have killed you.

I remember hearing my dad say many times that God is in control of life, if your time here isn't up you won't die until it is.

     Dad is back home again now. His first stop after they released him was the nursing home to see mom. She is totally unaware of his hospital stay. No emotion whatsoever.

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