Saturday -- Home Sweet Home

My Dad was discharged from the hospital this afternoon and is so glad to be back home! Although, he is definitely feeling the effects of having had surgery and is not feeling very well :-( He is sore and tired. His blood pressure medicine has been changed and that has helped bring his pressure down some. His blood sugar remains high, and he will now have to take insulin shots to help control it. That was discouraging to him as prior to his cancer diagnosis, he was controlling the diabetes really well with diet and exercise. At this point, however, the steroids have just made it impossible to control the sugar levels with diet alone. He had a crash course today on monitoring and administrating the insulin doses and as he is tapered off the steroids over the next few weeks, he hopes that he might be able to get back to controlling the diabetes via diet. He will visit with his primary care doctor either Monday or Tuesday to ensure that his recovery is on track, and he sees the surgeon for a follow up visit on Friday.
We are being blessed with yummy dinners from my parent's church family. It is nice not to have to worry about cooking as we get prescriptions filled, schedule and attend Dr. appointments, keep the cabinet shop running and process all the information pertaining to what treatments are next. All the love and support that have been showered on us is just amazing. Your calls, cards, flowers, prayers, visits and hugs are much appreciated. The last three months have been difficult, but its nice to have that part of the journey behind us. We know that there is more ahead and we ask that you continue to pray that we will have a clear idea on how to proceed with beating this terrible disease.