Metastatic liver cancer

We are at this moment taking dad out of the hospital (after his colon cancer surgery done last Monday).

Our main concern now is… who’s car makes the least bumps on the road

Father looks ok, just that his hands and feet are a bit swollen. Surely not as bad as with metastatic liver cancer father, so we will monitor it and follow up with the doctors on Thursday.

Walking a bit should make things better. Of course dad can not exercise too much nor can he lift (heavy) weights, so we will see, as he needs to rest as well and his food intake is not very nutricious I find.

Seems when people reach a certain age, doctors love to perform surgery…

Anyway, mom’s arm has undergone surgery about 5 weeks ago now. She still has the companionship of her 2 sisters who are retired nurses, but you can feel that the sisters want to continue their lives as well.

So far it seems that mom’s recovery is going well, and next week Monday she will get the visit of the professional palliative care taker of metastatic liver cancer father.

Not that mom needs palliative care, but it’s a relief to see a real person who knows the real problems, in stead of filling in papers and getting approved or not by somebody who never leaves his or her desk…

Short update what is going on now that dad has colon cancer and has undergone surgery as cancer treatment.

• we take turns so dad never is alone in the hospital (its good when you have a bunch of kids if you need somebody to take care of you, at least a few will help!)
• dad has some bowel motion (how we know has to do with bean cooking tips…)
• dad woke up already, said a few words but went to bed again, went to sleep that is as he is all the time in bed
• we keep on phoning each other to find out who can take over from whom

Further on we keep our fingers crossed and our mouths shut…