Thank you all for the prayers. Please keep them coming.
Results from the subsequent scans and biospsies are that he has tumors everywhere, including in the brain. The nature of the cancer is lung cancer, but he only has one small spot in a lung, and then it apparently metastasized throughout his body without spreading in the lungs first.
He is in the middle of 2 weeks of radiation. Chemo will follow.
In other news, about 4 weeks ago I found out by accident that my full time job was going away. We did not and still don't have a specific date, but today seems highly likely. I went over to administration immediately when I discovered they were shipping all of our trachs to another facility. They said that they were going to have a meeting with us when they had the relocation dates for all of our trach patients and knew whether the facility taking the trachs would also take some of us. That came and went with no meeting and no new information. Basically we have to find out whats happening by reading the social workers notes on what he said to the patient's families and talking to the families when they visit.
As finding a job is my most developed skill, I got on the ball immediately. So I have a new full time job starting Monday which is a 13 week contract (standard "travel" contract in healthcare) down in York, and 2 new PRN jobs on top of the one I already had (I have been accused of showing off about this
). So I will be back to 4 jobs for a while.
