September 25, 2011

Not giving up...

Friends and Family,

We ask that you continue in your prayers for my dad.  He was admitted to the hospital again over the weekend as his blood counts are the lowest they have ever been.  This tells us that he has internal bleeding again and it's caused by the same tumor that was previously bleeding.  We knew that it could bleed again, we just weren't expecting it to be so soon.  Dad's had a total of 7 units of blood since he's been in the hospital.  Tomorrow is a big day in that we talk with the doctors to see if they will be able to do another embolization procedure (same type he had before) to stop current bleeding.  If it is too complicated, they won't be able to stop the bleeding.  If they are not able to stop the bleeding, dad will most likely have to have blood transfusions every 2-3 days.  We will know more tomorrow.

Dad's in good spirits and he wants to continue to fight this.  We are so thankful for the continued days are able to have with dad. 

We are also thankful that he was able to get the brain radiation out of the way this past Thursday.  They did find two brain tumors that they were able to "zap". 

We continue to trust God through all of this and we feel Him giving each of us peace through this all.  We pray specifically for the bleeding to stop. 

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