Yay!

My Dad is coming home tomorrow (fingers crossed) if nothing else happens. I'm praying that all goes well and he can. It's been a long four weeks. On Friday, July 20 he went to the Health Science Centre in Winnipeg to get the cyst drained that is somewhere by his pancreas. Following the procedure he was in LOTS of pain. He didn't get in for a CT scan until the following Tuesday afternoon. The doctors got the results back on Wednesday late afternoon and suddenly they were in a panic because apparently there were some holes in his stomach and possibly his pancreas. I heard that these were caused by the procedure.

He had already been starting to eat and drink again and they took him off all food and drink (including no ice chips), put in a nasalgastric tube and IV to see if the holes would repair themselves by taking away anything that might aggravate them. They were going to wait 24-48 hours and then if the holes were not yet closed, they were going to do surgery. Well, 48 hours came and went and they decided to wait another 5 days and then do a dye test on Monday...today (send dye through his system and see if there are any places were it leaks out). But they changed their minds again and decided to let him start taking in clear fluids on Saturday to see how he handled that. He got to go off the morphine as the pain lessened and now he's on Tylenol 3. So far he's handling the fluids well. Today they were going to change the clear fluids to a little heavier fluids and see how that goes. He can integrate food back into his diet on his own, they are just waiting to make sure that everything is okay.

No dye test, no surgery, just waiting. Please pray that the holes are closed up and that this cyst wouldn't flare up again (it will still have to be addressed in the future). We are leaving on Friday for our holidays at the lake and he is anxious to come. Pray that he is well while we are gone and that he recovers quickly and regains his strength (he is skin and bones right now). It's been four weeks since he first went into the hospital and we are all ready for him to come home. It's been a long summer already.