third surgery

After my dad’s second surgery, he was doing really well. He did not have to radiation, but he did have to do chemo, which usually makes people pretty sick, but my dad always did extremely well, He just got tired. He acted weird because he was always tired and he never wanted to do anything.  My dad always kept a fairly positive attitude throughout the entire process of his recovery after his second surgery. We were always preoccupied with having to take him to a doctor’s appointment or something. 

After the surgery my dad slept all the time.  In October he went over to Terre Haute for one of the MRIs that he had received every three months since 2003, he was kind of nervous because his teeth were hurting, and it seemed like every time his began to hurt he would be diagnosed with cancer again, so he was basically freaking out. He learned that he once again had a metastasized tumor from his lung that had moved to his brain. The doctor’s began discussing yet another brain surgery for my dad which meant that he would have to go through the stress and rigors of surgery again. Brain surgery is extremely stressful on your body which meant he had a lot lower chance of making it through this surgery than he had with any other brain surgery he had, had to that point. My dad was very nervous about this surgery, but he was still positive. His surgery was scheduled for the second to last Friday of October in 2009.