91vette's blog: "My Dad"

Two days ago my family was gathered at the hospital,they had taken my dad off the ventilator but, he couldn't breath on his own.They put him back on it and read him his last rights. My mom had almost given up she just didn't know what to do but us kids said don't give up yet. My mom has been staying at my house threw all this. It was a long night and for me and mom pretty much a sleepless night.We were driving to the hospital early Tues morning when my sister call my mom from the hospital,my dad was off the ventilator, sitting up in bed and talking to my sister. Although he was not making a lot of sense he was breathing on his own. Only 10 hours earlier he had been given last rights.Today they moved him to CCU into his own room and has a lot of the tubes out of him. We are still waiting on the results to see if they got all of the cancer but today he is here, still pretty sick and in the hospital but, alive. That's one reason my dad is my hero and why i believe in prayers. to be cont.

My dad has always been my hero. I;m the oldest of 6, he did everything he knew how to raise us. We never had much but,he always did his very best. My dad has always been the rock in my family, he worked for Southwestern Bell for over 37 years and never missed a day of work, not in 37 years.My dad has never smoked or drank his whole life and has always been healthy. My dad is 78 right now. A month ago he and my mom went in to get their yearly physical, the found a small tumor on his lung, did a biopsy, it was cancer.My dad went into the hospital last Mon, (17th). They operated on him and ended up taking out half of his lung. I went to see him Wed and he was talking and just wanting to go home. Back up, Tues was my mom and dads 57 wedding anniversary Wed evening I got a call to get to the hospital, My dads heart had stopped and the called a code blue on him. Right now he is breathing by a machine.He cant give up... he is mt hero, Michael