Day 5..................God is truely healing!!! and has many Earthly Angels

The MAAAAAAN!, one of the two who put Dad back together. Dr. Sheppard

This photo was taken Monday mid morning. As you can see Dad's central line was removed from is right neck area and he is not wearing his oxygen tube. There was a period of time Sunday night he was put on a mask because of low saturation's but then back on cannula when he falls asleep during day if it drops. Is maintaining 98-100% on room air most of the time. They also accessed is left chest port for IV fluids so he just has one 14gauge in left anticubital area. Then of course he still has feeding tube which has been increased to 40cc/hr which is about an ounce (+) each hour. Oh yeah, he was also taken off his Insulin pump so they are checking his sugars about ever 4hrs and then give him insulin per sliding scale. Dr. Coleman came in also and pulled his NG tube out about 2" and re taped it. They are hoping to do a swallow studies Thursday and remove the tube just prior to that. Dr. Sheppard is very pleased with the results of Dad's surgery and is progress with recovery. Its all about his motivation and family and friends love and support!!!! Dad keeps asking each person in a white lab coat that comes in about the size and findings of his tumor, REPLY from every person is "We don't know yet because the pathologists have not released the information". Dr Sheppard and Dr. Coleman did tell him that the tumor was so small that they could not even palpate it through the stomach or esophageal wall. They also said that they did not manipulate it in any way so not to spread those cancer cells.....they just wanted to get it out. As some of you know he was also told he had a neoplastic tumor in his small bowel seen on CT. Well! after looking over the area of  several times, they were unable to find such a tumor and called it a CT misread......My brother says "It was probably a little turd"...lol, Dad says "HEY".