Tuesday, September 05, 2006

Updates on Mom and Dad

I see we haven't posted in a while..................

The latest news on my Mom is that she has been doing pretty darn well. It sounds like the lung tumor has been reduced to nothing, and they're still treating the tumor on her adrenale gland with chemotherapy. She hasn't had this evaluated in a while, but I believe there is more news to come of that later this month. During the last weekend in August, a bunch of the family got together in Lake Luzerne, NY (near Lake George). It was a little rainy, but we sure managed to eat a lot and had fun getting caught up on each other's lives.

My Dad went back in the hospital over this past weekend. I guess his breathing got progressively worse during the week, and while he was going laundry Saturday night, he went back to his apartment, tripped and hurt his knee. He had trouble getting back up, and I think had some angina pain, and called for help. EMTs arrived and took him to Botsford Hospital. It sounds like he's got pneumonia in his right lung, and his sugar has gone wacky for some reason. It was 415 at the hospital Saturday night, but it was down to 190 yesterday with some insulin. It's unclear as to whether this is a temporary thing connected to the pneumonia, or if he might have to monitor his insulin going forward.

He seemed in pretty good spirits yesterday, but was tired. He's in a huge corner room in the hospital with 4 beds in one room. It settled down after a while, but when I was there yesterday, they had a new admission, and it was crazy in there for about 45 minutes while they got his medical history, weight, etc.

Please keep everyone in your thoughts and prayers.

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